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 Spokane.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Urselle to the rap 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Christie,
MC5,
Rites of Spring,
the Soft Cell,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
Barry Ungar,
Moss Icon,
Aswad,
Matthew Halsall,
Deakin,
Sam Rivers,
Theoretical Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fugs,
Nils Olav,
Kas Product,
Reagan Youth,
Camberwell Now,
Accadde A,
Infiniti,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fugazi,
A Certain Ratio,
Sight & Sound,
Blossom Toes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lakeside,
The Doors,
The Searchers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Tubeway Army,
Lindisfarne,
The Star Department,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Holt,
Cymande,
Nas,
Pylon,
Colin Newman,
Bootsy Collins,
The Blues Magoos,
Television,
Country Teasers,
Alphaville,
June Days,
The Offenders,
Man Eating Sloth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Flag,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Quantec,
Easy Going,
KRS-One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jacob Miller,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.