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 Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Icehouse to the techno 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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Connie Case,
Fear,
Babytalk,
Q and Not U,
Pet Shop Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
The Leaves,
Eric B and Rakim,
Duran Duran,
Sound Behaviour,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sun City Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Von Mondo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Zero Boys,
Josef K,
Fat Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Sherman,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cowsills,
Johnny Clarke,
The Sound,
Boredoms,
Neil Young,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harpers Bizarre,
Buzzcocks,
The Knickerbockers,
David Bowie,
Scott Walker,
Carl Craig,
The Monks,
Idris Muhammad,
Letta Mbulu,
The Golliwogs,
Bang On A Can,
Interpol,
Davy DMX,
OOIOO,
The Smiths,
Slave,
Qualms,
The Barracudas,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Selecter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
Mark Hollis,
Scientists,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amazonics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.