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 Cambodia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Halsall,
The Tremeloes,
Archie Shepp,
Popol Vuh,
R.M.O.,
Minnie Riperton,
Eric B and Rakim,
Reuben Wilson,
June Days,
The Misunderstood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nick Fraelich,
Roy Ayers,
Kaleidoscope,
Clear Light,
Warsaw,
Sixth Finger,
KRS-One,
Brick,
Animal Collective,
Althea and Donna,
Byron Stingily,
Fear,
Visage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Zapp,
Organ,
New Order,
The Cramps,
Amon Düül II,
Letta Mbulu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eve St. Jones,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cowsills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fuzztones,
Max Romeo,
Darondo,
The Names,
Swell Maps,
The Invisible,
Audionom,
Camberwell Now,
John Cale,
Neu!,
Country Teasers,
The Zeros,
Joe Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Selecter,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.