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 Morocco and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Monks to the grunge 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sight & Sound,
Heaven 17,
Black Flag,
the Germs,
AZ,
Alison Limerick,
Althea and Donna,
Hasil Adkins,
Al Stewart,
Prince Buster,
Rotary Connection,
Mission of Burma,
Mantronix,
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aural Exciters,
The Grass Roots,
The Leaves,
This Heat,
Blossom Toes,
Clear Light,
Eric Copeland,
Scan 7,
Man Eating Sloth,
Intrusion,
Toni Rubio,
Monolake,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Lydon,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Whodini,
David Bowie,
K-Klass,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stereo Dub,
Outsiders,
The Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mummies,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stetsasonic,
Terry Callier,
The Walker Brothers,
The Invisible,
Alton Ellis,
The Sonics,
Todd Terry,
Fad Gadget,
Rekid,
Interpol,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ultravox,
Rakim,
Cybotron,
Oblivians,
Brothers Johnson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.