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 and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick Morgan,
Lalann,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Rapeman,
Cluster,
The Five Americans,
The Buckinghams,
Kerrie Biddell,
U.S. Maple,
Blancmange,
The Selecter,
Thompson Twins,
Joensuu 1685,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Judy Mowatt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Josef K,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Yaz,
Delta 5,
Mandrill,
Duran Duran,
Yellowson,
Saccharine Trust,
The Trojans,
Los Fastidios,
Jacob Miller,
Aloha Tigers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Donny Hathaway,
Fad Gadget,
The Leaves,
Parry Music,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roy Ayers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marine Girls,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Bob Dylan,
Al Stewart,
The Durutti Column,
the Slits,
Erasure,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ronnie Foster,
Average White Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tim Buckley,
Shuggie Otis,
Infiniti,
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.