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 Togo and from New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Cluster to the electroclash 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Vogues,
Metal Thangz,
Scratch Acid,
Monolake,
Nik Kershaw,
Swans,
Fugazi,
The Red Krayola,
The Fugs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Masters at Work,
Jawbox,
The Sound,
Lakeside,
Scion,
Pierre Henry,
The Mummies,
Yellowson,
Smog,
Drexciya,
Soft Machine,
Lou Christie,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Bill Near,
D'Angelo,
Funky Four + One,
Magma,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Slits,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fat Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Zapp,
Moss Icon,
Con Funk Shun,
Cheater Slicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Supertramp,
Black Flag,
A Certain Ratio,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joy Division,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Blancmange,
Essential Logic,
the Sonics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.