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 Palau and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Hardrive to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Eve St. Jones,
Neil Young,
Barrington Levy,
Technova,
Moss Icon,
The Mojo Men,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Normal,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gastr Del Sol,
June of 44,
Tomorrow,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Ituana,
Soul II Soul,
The Music Machine,
Ultravox,
Albert Ayler,
Au Pairs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tim Buckley,
Camouflage,
10cc,
Drexciya,
Glenn Branca,
Subhumans,
Bill Wells,
Scrapy,
Derrick May,
Maleditus Sound,
Animal Collective,
Rapeman,
Alison Limerick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang of Four,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeru the Damaja,
Stereo Dub,
A Certain Ratio,
This Heat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bang On A Can,
Porter Ricks,
The New Christs,
The Velvet Underground,
Shuggie Otis,
Fatback Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Banda Bassotti,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pantytec,
K-Klass,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eurythmics,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
R.M.O.,
Wings,
LL Cool J,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.