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 Russia and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes 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 Public Image Ltd. to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fat Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
Grey Daturas,
The Dead C,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joy Division,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pagans,
Television Personalities,
Brothers Johnson,
Andrew Hill,
Bill Near,
Delta 5,
The Count Five,
JFA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Masters at Work,
Charles Mingus,
Camouflage,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Visage,
Sugar Minott,
Section 25,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun Ra,
The Velvet Underground,
Accadde A,
John Holt,
Quadrant,
Thompson Twins,
Rod Modell,
Unrelated Segments,
Gichy Dan,
T.S.O.L.,
Soulsonic Force,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Stooges,
Underground Resistance,
Ohio Players,
Laurel Aitken,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minutemen,
Al Stewart,
Negative Approach,
Josef K,
Urselle,
The Vogues,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
Blake Baxter,
Make Up,
Outsiders,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.