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 Senegal and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the jazz 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
The Searchers,
Prince Buster,
Dave Gahan,
Deadbeat,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Coltrane,
Bobby Sherman,
The Residents,
Joe Smooth,
Eli Mardock,
Sun City Girls,
China Crisis,
Brand Nubian,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Womack,
Amon Düül II,
Pharoah Sanders,
Piero Umiliani,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sight & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
Animal Collective,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
Mark Hollis,
Arab on Radar,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Symarip,
Blake Baxter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Surgeon,
Ituana,
Max Romeo,
Con Funk Shun,
Joy Division,
T.S.O.L.,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Pus,
Quadrant,
Marmalade,
Vladislav Delay,
Tim Buckley,
The Neon Judgement,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crooked Eye,
Inner City,
Joyce Sims,
the Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
Wasted Youth,
Interpol,
Brothers Johnson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.