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 Ivory Coast and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Peter & Gordon to the rap 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
UT,
Skarface,
Funky Four + One,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Urselle,
The Gories,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
FM Einheit,
The Fuzztones,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Smoke,
LL Cool J,
Adolescents,
Mark Hollis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
Black Bananas,
The Neon Judgement,
Moss Icon,
Tres Demented,
Big Daddy Kane,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Derrick May,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Boogie Down Productions,
Smog,
the Soft Cell,
Q and Not U,
Roxette,
Gang Starr,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed,
The Pop Group,
Kerri Chandler,
Kayak,
Colin Newman,
Slave,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Misunderstood,
Rapeman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pierre Henry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Trojans,
Essential Logic,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
This Heat,
The Modern Lovers,
Symarip,
AZ,
T.S.O.L.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.