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 Brazil and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Germs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nas,
Crime,
Adolescents,
Laurel Aitken,
Dawn Penn,
Public Enemy,
The Gun Club,
Depeche Mode,
Soulsonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Leaves,
Lindisfarne,
Aswad,
Altered Images,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cure,
Heaven 17,
Ronnie Foster,
Eve St. Jones,
Roxy Music,
Mad Mike,
Rosa Yemen,
The Dead C,
Bluetip,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed,
AZ,
The Slackers,
The Names,
Grauzone,
Scratch Acid,
Moss Icon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
Gang Starr,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gregory Isaacs,
Arab on Radar,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Human League,
Organ,
World's Most,
Das Ding,
The J.B.'s,
Tears for Fears,
June of 44,
Bill Near,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
Kevin Saunderson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Parry Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DJ Sneak,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.