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 Dominica and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Essential Logic to the electroclash 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Amazonics,
Suburban Knight,
FM Einheit,
ABBA,
Aloha Tigers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sarah Menescal,
Rosa Yemen,
The Neon Judgement,
Tim Buckley,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pylon,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
The Star Department,
Don Cherry,
the Association,
The Sonics,
Brand Nubian,
Moby Grape,
Todd Terry,
Black Pus,
Yaz,
Bronski Beat,
The Pretty Things,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Shuggie Otis,
Crime,
Joe Finger,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
Sister Nancy,
Sonic Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Subhumans,
John Holt,
The Standells,
Frankie Knuckles,
Masters at Work,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mark Hollis,
Roxy Music,
The Smiths,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scrapy,
Sparks,
The Red Krayola,
Symarip,
Los Fastidios,
Ultravox,
The Gladiators,
Sixth Finger,
Parry Music,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.