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 East Timor and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jawbox to the dance 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
the Slits,
Smog,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Davy DMX,
Soft Cell,
Eli Mardock,
The Index,
Jeff Mills,
AZ,
Bill Near,
The Move,
Amazonics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Star Department,
The Dirtbombs,
Warsaw,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yazoo,
The Kinks,
Lalann,
The Barracudas,
Chrome,
Donald Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Excepter,
Fela Kuti,
JFA,
The Music Machine,
Porter Ricks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Cale,
The Doors,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Albert Ayler,
Alton Ellis,
Pole,
The Human League,
Von Mondo,
Symarip,
Pere Ubu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
LL Cool J,
Ronnie Foster,
Thee Headcoats,
Michelle Simonal,
MC5,
Gang of Four,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Malaria!,
Dead Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mars,
Make Up,
Subhumans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.