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 Seychelles and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon 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?
Boogie Down Productions,
Sister Nancy,
Toni Rubio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Saccharine Trust,
John Cale,
Stereo Dub,
Metal Thangz,
Fluxion,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter and Kerry,
the Swans,
Stetsasonic,
MDC,
Scott Walker,
the Soft Cell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Simply Red,
Pulsallama,
Ohio Players,
Das Ding,
Mr. Review,
Sun Ra,
The Beau Brummels,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deadbeat,
The Selecter,
Nas,
Tommy Roe,
Sandy B,
OOIOO,
Hardrive,
Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Crime,
Bluetip,
Newcleus,
Cal Tjader,
Radio Birdman,
Eddi Front,
The Dirtbombs,
Avey Tare,
L. Decosne,
The Music Machine,
Kerri Chandler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rites of Spring,
Sun City Girls,
Accadde A,
Silicon Teens,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang of Four,
Livin' Joy,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cowsills,
Scientists,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Neon Judgement,
Easy Going,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.