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 Estonia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Neu! to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Wally Richardson,
These Immortal Souls,
Bill Wells,
Adolescents,
Arthur Verocai,
Gabor Szabo,
Black Sheep,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Blake Baxter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brothers Johnson,
Marvin Gaye,
Anakelly,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cure,
In Retrospect,
Ossler,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Q65,
Gang Green,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Matthew Bourne,
Maurizio,
Amon Düül,
Stiv Bators,
Aswad,
Robert Görl,
The Slackers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Babytalk,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ituana,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jacob Miller,
Althea and Donna,
Eden Ahbez,
Don Cherry,
The Gladiators,
Albert Ayler,
Banda Bassotti,
Marine Girls,
The Victims,
Scion,
Interpol,
Sparks,
Spandau Ballet,
Pantytec,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Teasers,
Sugar Minott,
Minnie Riperton,
Maleditus Sound,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.