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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lille.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Newcleus to the electroclash 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
MC5,
Black Moon,
Popol Vuh,
Trumans Water,
Sparks,
Cal Tjader,
Japan,
The Grass Roots,
Minnie Riperton,
The American Breed,
Funkadelic,
Country Teasers,
Roy Ayers,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aaron Thompson,
Rekid,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Bluetip,
D'Angelo,
Pantytec,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Knickerbockers,
Qualms,
Warsaw,
Wolf Eyes,
The Star Department,
The Durutti Column,
EPMD,
Joyce Sims,
Magazine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Newcleus,
Max Romeo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
X-102,
Maleditus Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Nirvana,
the Bar-Kays,
Sarah Menescal,
Mars,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Altered Images,
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Fortunes,
The Wake,
Boredoms,
Negative Approach,
Mad Mike,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.