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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Monolake,
Organ,
Arab on Radar,
Jandek,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
These Immortal Souls,
Country Teasers,
Neu!,
Soul II Soul,
The Beau Brummels,
Bang On A Can,
Jeff Lynne,
Slick Rick,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mantronix,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dead Boys,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare,
Nils Olav,
T.S.O.L.,
Lightning Bolt,
Roger Hodgson,
New York Dolls,
Kas Product,
Television,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sonic Youth,
the Bar-Kays,
Groovy Waters,
Das Ding,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Evens,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Connie Case,
Harry Pussy,
The Buckinghams,
Sarah Menescal,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalann,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grandmaster Flash,
Desert Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Sexual Harrassment,
Deadbeat,
the Germs,
Grey Daturas,
Visage,
Yazoo,
The Zeros,
Lebanon Hanover,
Niagra,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.