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 Tajikistan 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Neu! to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Amon Düül II,
David McCallum,
Jesper Dahlback,
Monolake,
Slave,
Mo-Dettes,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Smoke,
The Dead C,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Monochrome Set,
The J.B.'s,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Suicide,
Grauzone,
Yaz,
Mandrill,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arthur Verocai,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Agitation Free,
Eli Mardock,
The Trojans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Last Poets,
The Motions,
T.S.O.L.,
The Barracudas,
New Age Steppers,
Steve Hackett,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Thompson Twins,
Echospace,
Das Ding,
Marshall Jefferson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
John Lydon,
Oneida,
Prince Buster,
Rapeman,
Amon Düül,
Sexual Harrassment,
Con Funk Shun,
Joe Finger,
These Immortal Souls,
The Divine Comedy,
Dawn Penn,
Shuggie Otis,
The Beau Brummels,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.