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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 D'Angelo to the jazz 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Yaz,
Joyce Sims,
Ultra Naté,
Heaven 17,
Patti Smith,
Janne Schatter,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Cal Tjader,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Moebius,
Hoover,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
Derrick Morgan,
Gichy Dan,
the Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pulsallama,
Mantronix,
Sun Ra,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bill Near,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scion,
Slave,
The Dead C,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aural Exciters,
FM Einheit,
Howard Jones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Panda Bear,
ABC,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Bourne,
The Young Rascals,
Isaac Hayes,
Inner City,
Q and Not U,
Sound Behaviour,
Cymande,
Shuggie Otis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tomorrow,
Darondo,
Warren Ellis,
Royal Trux,
Trumans Water,
John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
DNA,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.