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 Tuvalu and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Sight & Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
KRS-One,
Ten City,
World's Most,
The Doobie Brothers,
Moby Grape,
The Red Krayola,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zero Boys,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wasted Youth,
Mad Mike,
Essential Logic,
Nirvana,
the Germs,
Con Funk Shun,
Yellowson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camberwell Now,
Connie Case,
Lungfish,
Oneida,
Piero Umiliani,
The Names,
U.S. Maple,
Bronski Beat,
Joy Division,
The Sonics,
Hoover,
Von Mondo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Lalann,
Unwound,
Liliput,
The Flesh Eaters,
Country Teasers,
Audionom,
Lee Hazlewood,
Motorama,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
Fela Kuti,
Rakim,
Animal Collective,
Masters at Work,
La Düsseldorf,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Walker Brothers,
Jandek,
Accadde A,
The Litter,
Sonic Youth,
The Birthday Party,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.