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 Nauru and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Offenders to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jandek,
Supertramp,
The Techniques,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Hood,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonic Youth,
The Knickerbockers,
Bush Tetras,
Popol Vuh,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The New Christs,
Neil Young,
the Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stereo Dub,
Hasil Adkins,
Von Mondo,
Boz Scaggs,
Fela Kuti,
Patti Smith,
The Moody Blues,
Quadrant,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Erykah Badu,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Connie Case,
Depeche Mode,
Glambeats Corp.,
Loose Ends,
Crash Course in Science,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeru the Damaja,
Shoche,
Franke,
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Underground Resistance,
Lalann,
Pole,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Saints,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Victims,
The Human League,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.