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 Pakistan and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 EPMD to the electroclash 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
kango's stein massive,
Lalann,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Morten Harket,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sugar Minott,
The Star Department,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Vogues,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kas Product,
Minutemen,
The Birthday Party,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rekid,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sonic Youth,
Fugazi,
Urselle,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
The Durutti Column,
Soul II Soul,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Peter & Gordon,
The Electric Prunes,
Ossler,
Flash Fearless,
The Barracudas,
Moby Grape,
Soft Cell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fela Kuti,
Guru Guru,
Pulsallama,
John Cale,
Ituana,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eden Ahbez,
The Last Poets,
The Residents,
David McCallum,
Brick,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed,
Funkadelic,
Mars,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nik Kershaw,
Oneida,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eric Dolphy,
Lyres,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.