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 Niger and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bluetip to the rap 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Nico,
Minutemen,
Sonic Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Detroit Cobras,
ABBA,
Khruangbin,
In Retrospect,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scratch Acid,
F. McDonald,
Marc Almond,
China Crisis,
Stockholm Monsters,
DJ Style,
A Certain Ratio,
Public Enemy,
Letta Mbulu,
Theoretical Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Sexual Harrassment,
Alphaville,
Aaron Thompson,
Outsiders,
Scrapy,
Lalo Schifrin,
B.T. Express,
T.S.O.L.,
Barrington Levy,
Andrew Hill,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Underground Resistance,
Max Romeo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ten City,
Absolute Body Control,
Funky Four + One,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
Silicon Teens,
Organ,
The Remains,
Sam Rivers,
Unrelated Segments,
Nirvana,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Malaria!,
The Moleskins,
The Tremeloes,
Smog,
Fear,
Amon Düül II,
Ohio Players,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.