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 Liberia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Max Romeo to the dance 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Rites of Spring,
Joensuu 1685,
The Red Krayola,
Rhythm & Sound,
AZ,
Jeff Lynne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Technova,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
a-ha,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Vainqueur,
Junior Murvin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harmonia,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gladiators,
Rapeman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Spandau Ballet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Darondo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Can,
Pere Ubu,
The Neon Judgement,
The Residents,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
A Certain Ratio,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
These Immortal Souls,
Wings,
10cc,
The Associates,
Agent Orange,
Pantytec,
Mission of Burma,
The Dirtbombs,
Dark Day,
Outsiders,
The Dave Clark Five,
PIL,
Morten Harket,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultra Naté,
The Litter,
Carl Craig,
F. McDonald,
Todd Rundgren,
Sex Pistols,
Warsaw,
Joe Finger,
The Alarm Clocks,
Aswad,
Sandy B,
Alice Coltrane,
The Sound,
Jerry's Kids,
The Count Five,
Crime,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.