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 Cuba and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb 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 Swans to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Little Man,
Eric Dolphy,
The Music Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alice Coltrane,
Rufus Thomas,
The Victims,
The Searchers,
Shoche,
The Standells,
The Happenings,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mandrill,
K-Klass,
Prince Buster,
The Trojans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monolake,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Swans,
Bauhaus,
Deakin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faraquet,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Byrd,
Excepter,
Skarface,
Zapp,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Agitation Free,
Half Japanese,
Spandau Ballet,
One Last Wish,
Pere Ubu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Brass Construction,
Connie Case,
Franke,
MDC,
Pussy Galore,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erykah Badu,
Thompson Twins,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yaz,
Dave Gahan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wolf Eyes,
Dead Boys,
John Coltrane,
Danielle Patucci,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.