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 Montenegro and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Joy Division to the rap 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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Nico,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
the Bar-Kays,
The Star Department,
Lee Hazlewood,
Motorama,
Boz Scaggs,
Dual Sessions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smoke,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
Mad Mike,
MC5,
Gong,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kaleidoscope,
Excepter,
Spandau Ballet,
The Seeds,
Audionom,
Tim Buckley,
One Last Wish,
Pantaleimon,
The Doors,
La Düsseldorf,
Toni Rubio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Stooges,
Hot Snakes,
Quadrant,
Eden Ahbez,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Görl,
Mandrill,
Yellowson,
The Remains,
Andrew Hill,
Icehouse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fela Kuti,
Unwound,
Deepchord,
The Music Machine,
The Litter,
KRS-One,
Minny Pops,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Pus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.