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 Liberia and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 The Fortunes to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minnie Riperton,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Young Marble Giants,
Nils Olav,
Nirvana,
The Fugs,
Schoolly D,
Circle Jerks,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slick Rick,
Hot Snakes,
Boz Scaggs,
OOIOO,
The Mojo Men,
Harry Pussy,
Organ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barclay James Harvest,
The Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camberwell Now,
Altered Images,
Hashim,
Michelle Simonal,
Joe Smooth,
Scion,
Faust,
Ultravox,
Soft Cell,
Eric Dolphy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siglo XX,
Max Romeo,
KRS-One,
Black Sheep,
The Music Machine,
Roxette,
Dave Gahan,
Eddi Front,
The Searchers,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Busters,
Goldenarms,
Boredoms,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rapeman,
R.M.O.,
Ornette Coleman,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiohead,
JFA,
The Star Department,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tres Demented,
The Neon Judgement,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.