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 Guyana and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lungfish to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
John Foxx,
Eden Ahbez,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Rapeman,
Lindisfarne,
the Normal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Derrick Morgan,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott Heron,
10cc,
Black Sheep,
Fela Kuti,
Half Japanese,
Danielle Patucci,
The Index,
Stereo Dub,
Ultimate Spinach,
B.T. Express,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lucky Dragons,
Negative Approach,
The Happenings,
Toni Rubio,
Dawn Penn,
MDC,
Lyres,
David Bowie,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gabor Szabo,
This Heat,
Basic Channel,
Brand Nubian,
Maleditus Sound,
Infiniti,
Heaven 17,
China Crisis,
Bootsy Collins,
Delta 5,
Sarah Menescal,
Boz Scaggs,
the Human League,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fall,
Mandrill,
Minny Pops,
Urselle,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Isaac Hayes,
Robert Görl,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
Symarip,
Q65,
Ronan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.