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 Guyana and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the crunk 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alice Coltrane,
the Bar-Kays,
Monolake,
New York Dolls,
The Names,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Babytalk,
Barbara Tucker,
La Düsseldorf,
John Lydon,
The J.B.'s,
Ultravox,
kango's stein massive,
Anakelly,
X-101,
Khruangbin,
Adolescents,
Amon Düül,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nas,
Cybotron,
Bush Tetras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Leaves,
The Vogues,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Litter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soulsonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Stiv Bators,
Alphaville,
Thee Headcoats,
Surgeon,
Minny Pops,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bang On A Can,
The Happenings,
Gil Scott Heron,
MDC,
Chrome,
Chris Corsano,
Silicon Teens,
Marvin Gaye,
Susan Cadogan,
The Zeros,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Q and Not U,
Jawbox,
Drexciya,
Loose Ends,
Dennis Brown,
Jimmy McGriff,
Magazine,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.