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 Denmark and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flipper to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Erykah Badu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Essential Logic,
Connie Case,
Chrome,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camberwell Now,
Chris Corsano,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Velvet Underground,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Andrew Hill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brand Nubian,
Pussy Galore,
Theoretical Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wire,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gabor Szabo,
Mad Mike,
ABC,
Inner City,
Hashim,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
The Vogues,
Roxette,
Peter & Gordon,
Nirvana,
Patti Smith,
The Fire Engines,
Pole,
Kas Product,
Negative Approach,
David Axelrod,
U.S. Maple,
Technova,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dead C,
Vainqueur,
cv313,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Groovy Waters,
Charles Mingus,
Eddi Front,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick May,
Sällskapet,
Qualms,
The Gladiators,
Sugar Minott,
Shoche,
8 Eyed Spy,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.