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 Somalia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 8 Eyed Spy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Isaac Hayes,
The Techniques,
Lakeside,
Angry Samoans,
The Skatalites,
The Remains,
Letta Mbulu,
CMW,
Model 500,
Nils Olav,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gap Band,
Yazoo,
a-ha,
Rakim,
Matthew Bourne,
Black Bananas,
Alison Limerick,
The Toasters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Smiths,
Brick,
Intrusion,
Whodini,
The Divine Comedy,
Barbara Tucker,
Blossom Toes,
The Vogues,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Derrick May,
Magma,
Das Ding,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eddi Front,
Gang of Four,
Television,
Spandau Ballet,
Carl Craig,
Spoonie Gee,
June Days,
Urselle,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fortunes,
Vainqueur,
Hasil Adkins,
Eve St. Jones,
Susan Cadogan,
ABC,
Tomorrow,
John Cale,
the Swans,
The Victims,
The Associates,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.