Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Korea North and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Rekid to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
The Selecter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ralphi Rosario,
June Days,
Sandy B,
The Skatalites,
Procol Harum,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yaz,
La Düsseldorf,
Goldenarms,
Ludus,
Average White Band,
Adolescents,
Erykah Badu,
Jawbox,
Popol Vuh,
The Standells,
The Alarm Clocks,
Accadde A,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Smog,
Junior Murvin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kurtis Blow,
Delta 5,
Banda Bassotti,
Barrington Levy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radio Birdman,
Jeff Mills,
Second Layer,
Rites of Spring,
Chrome,
Amon Düül,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pussy Galore,
Hardrive,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Kinks,
Sonic Youth,
Ronan,
Alison Limerick,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eurythmics,
Outsiders,
Cameo,
Absolute Body Control,
David Bowie,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
The Techniques,
the Swans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.