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 Indonesia and from Jakarta.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 World's Most to the grime 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pagans,
Fela Kuti,
John Coltrane,
Kerri Chandler,
Babytalk,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Christie,
Erykah Badu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Josef K,
Agitation Free,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Anakelly,
Deepchord,
Radiopuhelimet,
Judy Mowatt,
Skarface,
London Community Gospel Choir,
This Heat,
Nirvana,
Metal Thangz,
In Retrospect,
Fear,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Litter,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Schoolly D,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jawbox,
The Real Kids,
The Fuzztones,
Brand Nubian,
T.S.O.L.,
U.S. Maple,
DJ Style,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radiohead,
Eurythmics,
Toni Rubio,
Crooked Eye,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hoover,
Stetsasonic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Bananas,
Drive Like Jehu,
L. Decosne,
Aloha Tigers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Section 25,
The Fire Engines,
Gastr Del Sol,
UT,
Max Romeo,
Franke,
Model 500,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.