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 Sudan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joy Division to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Nils Olav,
Gang of Four,
The Sonics,
Neu!,
the Bar-Kays,
Hot Snakes,
Sparks,
Maleditus Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
Underground Resistance,
Brothers Johnson,
A Certain Ratio,
Anthony Braxton,
the Normal,
Curtis Mayfield,
CMW,
B.T. Express,
Ossler,
Todd Terry,
Letta Mbulu,
Ken Boothe,
Frankie Knuckles,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thompson Twins,
Whodini,
The Fall,
Ludus,
Tres Demented,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dual Sessions,
Yusef Lateef,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kenny Larkin,
Liliput,
The Index,
Nick Fraelich,
Mantronix,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Subhumans,
Altered Images,
Sexual Harrassment,
Monolake,
Television,
Chris Corsano,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gories,
the Germs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Associates,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Half Japanese,
Section 25,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
Goldenarms,
The Techniques,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.