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 Guyana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Minor Threat to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Ronan,
Rakim,
The Fall,
Basic Channel,
Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Durutti Column,
Panda Bear,
Japan,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
Cluster,
Jawbox,
The Busters,
Bauhaus,
Barry Ungar,
DNA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Angels of Light,
Delon & Dalcan,
Toni Rubio,
Kurtis Blow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Essential Logic,
Fat Boys,
Deadbeat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
UT,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
the Soft Cell,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Pretty Things,
The Smiths,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
The Dead C,
Swell Maps,
Niagra,
Average White Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
Ituana,
Rapeman,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Mills,
Moss Icon,
Stiv Bators,
the Normal,
Black Flag,
Erykah Badu,
The Misunderstood,
Anakelly,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.