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 Greece and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Trumans Water to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
The Vogues,
Agent Orange,
Crispy Ambulance,
Boz Scaggs,
T. Rex,
Aaron Thompson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cluster,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fad Gadget,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Minny Pops,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delta 5,
The J.B.'s,
Gang Green,
Curtis Mayfield,
T.S.O.L.,
Adolescents,
D'Angelo,
The Smiths,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pantytec,
Flash Fearless,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dead Boys,
Ludus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Brass Construction,
Barbara Tucker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Music Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
The Moleskins,
Brand Nubian,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
Johnny Clarke,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lalann,
Easy Going,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lebanon Hanover,
La Düsseldorf,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ronnie Foster,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.