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 Mongolia and from Houston.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum 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 Ultra Naté to the disco 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee 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?
Fluxion,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dual Sessions,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris Corsano,
Skarface,
Lalann,
Terrestrial Tones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Dead Boys,
F. McDonald,
Joe Smooth,
Oblivians,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gang of Four,
Delon & Dalcan,
Flash Fearless,
Hardrive,
Organ,
Crash Course in Science,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fuzztones,
Qualms,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lyres,
Howard Jones,
World's Most,
The Selecter,
Nico,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sonics,
The Associates,
Liliput,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
Faust,
Alphaville,
Ice-T,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Y Pants,
Pulsallama,
Robert Görl,
Idris Muhammad,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kaleidoscope,
Colin Newman,
Guru Guru,
Yaz,
Scratch Acid,
Ralphi Rosario,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.