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 Jamaica and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 Altered Images to the punk 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Sight & Sound,
Moebius,
Lower 48,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aaron Thompson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
Moss Icon,
Wally Richardson,
Barbara Tucker,
X-102,
Nik Kershaw,
Sun City Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Smoke,
The Birthday Party,
The Pretty Things,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Theoretical Girls,
The Slackers,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visage,
Barry Ungar,
Electric Prunes,
Oneida,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deepchord,
The Leaves,
Aural Exciters,
Anakelly,
Clear Light,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Ice-T,
Ituana,
Stetsasonic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fall,
Suicide,
Kenny Larkin,
These Immortal Souls,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Names,
Sällskapet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joy Division,
Cal Tjader,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Malaria!,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.