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 Haiti and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Neon Judgement to the funk 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Arab on Radar,
PIL,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Vogues,
New York Dolls,
The Real Kids,
Technova,
The Cowsills,
Qualms,
Gong,
Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
Thee Headcoats,
Das Ding,
Ituana,
The Fortunes,
MDC,
Archie Shepp,
Nick Fraelich,
Marvin Gaye,
Nik Kershaw,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sugar Minott,
X-101,
Sound Behaviour,
Minnie Riperton,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gladiators,
The Angels of Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chris Corsano,
Monolake,
Rites of Spring,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Trumans Water,
Model 500,
Negative Approach,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
The Slits,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Seeds,
Basic Channel,
Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moebius,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Danielle Patucci,
Section 25,
The Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Depeche Mode,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eurythmics,
Pagans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Flag,
Toni Rubio,
The Velvet Underground,
X-Ray Spex,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.