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 Tanzania 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ohio Players to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
The Grass Roots,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
Agent Orange,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Icehouse,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fad Gadget,
Sandy B,
Dave Gahan,
Fugazi,
the Normal,
Nick Fraelich,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Country Teasers,
Hashim,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stetsasonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Walker Brothers,
Mr. Review,
Masters at Work,
Fatback Band,
DJ Style,
E-Dancer,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Man Parrish,
Gang Starr,
Michelle Simonal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thee Headcoats,
Brick,
Can,
Soul Sonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
The Monks,
Lalann,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
K-Klass,
JFA,
The Doobie Brothers,
Yazoo,
Banda Bassotti,
Sex Pistols,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Inner City,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Litter,
Adolescents,
Royal Trux,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wasted Youth,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.