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 Dominican Republic and from Stockholm.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 MDC to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Hasil Adkins,
Grauzone,
The Fuzztones,
The American Breed,
These Immortal Souls,
Ponytail,
Loose Ends,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bluetip,
Hardrive,
Pylon,
Reuben Wilson,
Qualms,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nirvana,
Circle Jerks,
Sparks,
Stetsasonic,
B.T. Express,
Jacques Brel,
Liliput,
The Barracudas,
EPMD,
The Blues Magoos,
Altered Images,
U.S. Maple,
Vainqueur,
The Searchers,
The Victims,
The Smiths,
Ituana,
Camberwell Now,
Alphaville,
Nas,
Hashim,
K-Klass,
Suburban Knight,
Donald Byrd,
Technova,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sun Ra,
Soft Cell,
Avey Tare,
Carl Craig,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Slits,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Stooges,
Excepter,
Drexciya,
The Slackers,
The Red Krayola,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantaleimon,
Lower 48,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cecil Taylor,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.