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 Georgia and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Vogues to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Amon Düül,
June Days,
Lou Reed,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Slave,
These Immortal Souls,
Harmonia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Loose Ends,
Dawn Penn,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Kaleidoscope,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Main Source,
Rod Modell,
the Germs,
Infiniti,
Alphaville,
Half Japanese,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantytec,
Jeff Lynne,
John Holt,
Moby Grape,
The New Christs,
B.T. Express,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Foxx,
The Moody Blues,
New Age Steppers,
Judy Mowatt,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül II,
Little Man,
Glenn Branca,
Warren Ellis,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Hood,
Aaron Thompson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Derrick Morgan,
David Axelrod,
Outsiders,
Smog,
Bootsy Collins,
Marine Girls,
Fatback Band,
The Buckinghams,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tropical Tobacco,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camberwell Now,
kango's stein massive,
The Happenings,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.