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 Bulgaria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Max Romeo to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Joyce Sims,
Bad Manners,
Yazoo,
Soft Machine,
Jeff Lynne,
Gregory Isaacs,
D'Angelo,
Kerri Chandler,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eli Mardock,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
Dennis Brown,
Gabor Szabo,
The Young Rascals,
Idris Muhammad,
Albert Ayler,
Suicide,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wasted Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Rundgren,
Maleditus Sound,
Franke,
Freddie Wadling,
The Pretty Things,
Quantec,
Siglo XX,
Swans,
Scion,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Starr,
Moss Icon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ornette Coleman,
F. McDonald,
Outsiders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
Young Marble Giants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Duran Duran,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Christie,
Skriet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Livin' Joy,
The Count Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Smog,
Sällskapet,
The Fortunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Unwound,
Quadrant,
Spoonie Gee,
Pierre Henry,
DNA,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mandrill,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.