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 the UAE and from New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sound to the grunge 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Gabor Szabo,
Lightning Bolt,
The Black Dice,
Malaria!,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gang Starr,
Connie Case,
Audionom,
The Zeros,
Soft Machine,
The Fugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lower 48,
Rosa Yemen,
DNA,
The Stooges,
Sällskapet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Cale,
Harry Pussy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Franke,
Outsiders,
Underground Resistance,
Q and Not U,
Jacob Miller,
Banda Bassotti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Panda Bear,
Hasil Adkins,
Pulsallama,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alison Limerick,
These Immortal Souls,
Wasted Youth,
Television,
Grauzone,
Make Up,
JFA,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Susan Cadogan,
Electric Prunes,
Black Moon,
Tears for Fears,
Al Stewart,
Blossom Toes,
The Seeds,
Intrusion,
Grey Daturas,
Ornette Coleman,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Josef K,
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.