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 Uruguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pet Shop Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Theoretical Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Birthday Party,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Max Romeo,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Barry Ungar,
Mantronix,
Maleditus Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Panda Bear,
Reagan Youth,
The American Breed,
Intrusion,
The Offenders,
Siglo XX,
Boz Scaggs,
Andrew Hill,
Pantytec,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Bar-Kays,
Radio Birdman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gap Band,
World's Most,
Sarah Menescal,
The Skatalites,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare,
Bizarre Inc.,
Spoonie Gee,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Shadows of Knight,
Massinfluence,
Newcleus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Schoolly D,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moleskins,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Selecter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Audionom,
Ultravox,
Jandek,
Swans,
Deepchord,
Carl Craig,
The Vogues,
The Music Machine,
Trumans Water,
The Standells,
Suburban Knight,
Depeche Mode,
Half Japanese,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.