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 Ethiopia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Jerry's Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sight & Sound,
Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fear,
Cluster,
Moebius,
The Count Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pole,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Starr,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Glenn Branca,
Scott Walker,
Theoretical Girls,
Whodini,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wasted Youth,
The Gun Club,
Quantec,
Graham Central Station,
Todd Terry,
The Pretty Things,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Subhumans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Neon Judgement,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Invisible,
The Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
Marvin Gaye,
Pierre Henry,
Cecil Taylor,
World's Most,
Lower 48,
Scion,
Ken Boothe,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Stooges,
Nation of Ulysses,
Monks,
10cc,
Audionom,
The New Christs,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
The Doors,
Interpol,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Make Up,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeff Lynne,
Moss Icon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.