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 Taiwan and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Von Mondo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Eric Copeland,
The Happenings,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gories,
Moebius,
Ituana,
Rakim,
Eden Ahbez,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ossler,
Heaven 17,
The Techniques,
Urselle,
Interpol,
Aural Exciters,
New Age Steppers,
Camberwell Now,
Janne Schatter,
Depeche Mode,
DNA,
Howard Jones,
The J.B.'s,
The Martian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Golliwogs,
the Bar-Kays,
Oneida,
Cameo,
The Gun Club,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amon Düül II,
Wings,
Fela Kuti,
FM Einheit,
The Music Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Whodini,
Anakelly,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones,
Rod Modell,
Con Funk Shun,
The Moody Blues,
cv313,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Pus,
Banda Bassotti,
Arcadia,
OOIOO,
D'Angelo,
Porter Ricks,
Loose Ends,
Judy Mowatt,
Skriet,
The Buckinghams,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Near,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Faraquet,
Technova,
Tropical Tobacco,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.