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 United Kingdom and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joensuu 1685 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
Royal Trux,
Brothers Johnson,
Siglo XX,
Funkadelic,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
Bush Tetras,
Dead Boys,
Amon Düül,
The Gories,
The Slits,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soul II Soul,
The New Christs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultravox,
The Move,
Q65,
Scan 7,
Lalann,
Niagra,
Josef K,
Dorothy Ashby,
8 Eyed Spy,
Janne Schatter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cybotron,
Swans,
The Happenings,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Mummies,
The Associates,
The Fire Engines,
Tubeway Army,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Goldenarms,
Robert Hood,
The American Breed,
Jerry's Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barry Ungar,
ABBA,
Jacques Brel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Zero Boys,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ice-T,
Technova,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.