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 Ecuador and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar 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 Pulsallama to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Alton Ellis,
Josef K,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Star Department,
Iggy Pop,
Motorama,
Aaron Thompson,
Gabor Szabo,
Joensuu 1685,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pylon,
Nils Olav,
Dual Sessions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neu!,
The Techniques,
Camberwell Now,
Quantec,
Dead Boys,
Scientists,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
Erykah Badu,
The Raincoats,
Rekid,
The Remains,
The Last Poets,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wally Richardson,
Prince Buster,
Blake Baxter,
The Saints,
Marmalade,
Electric Prunes,
Pussy Galore,
Section 25,
Flipper,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marvin Gaye,
Echospace,
Spoonie Gee,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arcadia,
Pantytec,
Sugar Minott,
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Popol Vuh,
Chris & Cosey,
Deakin,
Nik Kershaw,
Judy Mowatt,
Ossler,
The Gap Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gang Green,
Public Enemy,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.