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 Syria and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Matthew Bourne to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Letta Mbulu,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young,
Lucky Dragons,
Bob Dylan,
The Music Machine,
Duran Duran,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythm & Sound,
Graham Central Station,
Malaria!,
Quando Quango,
Peter & Gordon,
One Last Wish,
Delta 5,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arab on Radar,
Roxette,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Stooges,
Glenn Branca,
The Fugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Yaz,
Gang Gang Dance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Hardrive,
Trumans Water,
Drexciya,
Lalann,
Junior Murvin,
Kas Product,
Depeche Mode,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Spandau Ballet,
Youth Brigade,
Leonard Cohen,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Evens,
Blossom Toes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
Adolescents,
The J.B.'s,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nico,
The Selecter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jerry's Kids,
Lower 48,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.