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 Italy and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Moby Grape to the rock 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Liliput,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Skatalites,
Ultra Naté,
Idris Muhammad,
Fugazi,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mary Jane Girls,
Thee Headcoats,
Infiniti,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Moleskins,
Camouflage,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Schoolly D,
10cc,
Fela Kuti,
Max Romeo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stockholm Monsters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Scientists,
Yaz,
Junior Murvin,
David McCallum,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nils Olav,
the Association,
Groovy Waters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül II,
Gang of Four,
Carl Craig,
48th St. Collective,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The New Christs,
The Beau Brummels,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mars,
Arab on Radar,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
Bauhaus,
The Angels of Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Style,
Pole,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Pus,
Davy DMX,
FM Einheit,
June of 44,
Slave,
Fluxion,
Bluetip,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.