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 East Timor and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gregory Isaacs to the disco 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eli Mardock,
Maleditus Sound,
Jandek,
Steve Hackett,
The United States of America,
Lightning Bolt,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Sherman,
the Germs,
Aural Exciters,
Skaos,
KRS-One,
Adolescents,
Fela Kuti,
Tres Demented,
Reuben Wilson,
The Barracudas,
The Offenders,
The Litter,
R.M.O.,
Sugar Minott,
Bronski Beat,
Lungfish,
Panda Bear,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eurythmics,
Essential Logic,
Nas,
Suburban Knight,
Deepchord,
Von Mondo,
Ossler,
Stetsasonic,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The J.B.'s,
Average White Band,
Easy Going,
The Birthday Party,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joe Finger,
Robert Hood,
Black Flag,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Davy DMX,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Seeds,
Talk Talk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.