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 Norway and from Salvador.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Hong Kong.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 DJ Style to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Flash Fearless,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fat Boys,
10cc,
Blancmange,
Mantronix,
the Slits,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Associates,
Mr. Review,
Tom Boy,
Scion,
Boredoms,
Pussy Galore,
The Gun Club,
Barry Ungar,
Joyce Sims,
Chrome,
Malaria!,
Shoche,
The Names,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronnie Foster,
John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ken Boothe,
The Standells,
Godley & Creme,
Circle Jerks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aural Exciters,
The United States of America,
Kas Product,
The Cramps,
Soft Cell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Charles Mingus,
Nico,
The Fire Engines,
The Cowsills,
Michelle Simonal,
Pulsallama,
Grauzone,
Country Teasers,
Outsiders,
Ornette Coleman,
Desert Stars,
Slick Rick,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unrelated Segments,
June Days,
Monolake,
Magazine,
Babytalk,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pierre Henry,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.