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 New Zealand and from Hong Kong.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Maurizio to the grime 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Hardrive,
Judy Mowatt,
Liliput,
kango's stein massive,
Los Fastidios,
Desert Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Archie Shepp,
The Black Dice,
Kerri Chandler,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Guru Guru,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Moon,
Boredoms,
Goldenarms,
MC5,
Rites of Spring,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hot Snakes,
In Retrospect,
Reagan Youth,
Carl Craig,
Cybotron,
Jerry's Kids,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Section 25,
The Buckinghams,
the Human League,
Magazine,
Pantaleimon,
Heaven 17,
The Saints,
Thompson Twins,
B.T. Express,
The Fall,
Scientists,
Y Pants,
Fluxion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Groovy Waters,
Pole,
Brass Construction,
Vainqueur,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Basic Channel,
Interpol,
Steve Hackett,
Grey Daturas,
Faust,
Circle Jerks,
Swans,
Eurythmics,
Neu!,
the Soft Cell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Audionom,
MDC,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.