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 Serbia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Skriet to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Victims,
Gichy Dan,
Gabor Szabo,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
Pantytec,
Fela Kuti,
Groovy Waters,
Alison Limerick,
Anthony Braxton,
Kaleidoscope,
Sixth Finger,
Man Parrish,
Michelle Simonal,
Niagra,
Make Up,
Godley & Creme,
Jimmy McGriff,
Max Romeo,
James White and The Blacks,
John Foxx,
Idris Muhammad,
Hasil Adkins,
Jandek,
Sun Ra,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Oblivians,
Shoche,
The Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bluetip,
The Stooges,
Eli Mardock,
Massinfluence,
Basic Channel,
Kas Product,
Pet Shop Boys,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Faust,
The Skatalites,
Fluxion,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sugar Minott,
Roy Ayers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dave Clark Five,
DJ Sneak,
Outsiders,
Gong,
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.