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 Belgium and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Marvin Gaye,
The Invisible,
The Monochrome Set,
Electric Prunes,
The Gun Club,
Bill Wells,
Aaron Thompson,
Pantaleimon,
Susan Cadogan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Wasted Youth,
La Düsseldorf,
Sight & Sound,
Severed Heads,
Deepchord,
DNA,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brothers Johnson,
Eve St. Jones,
Moby Grape,
Deakin,
Loose Ends,
Maleditus Sound,
The Durutti Column,
Ten City,
New Order,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bill Near,
Sonny Sharrock,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Delta 5,
John Holt,
Whodini,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eurythmics,
Sixth Finger,
Ornette Coleman,
The Tremeloes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Japan,
Essential Logic,
Von Mondo,
Minnie Riperton,
Matthew Halsall,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skarface,
Jawbox,
Bobby Byrd,
Bush Tetras,
The Cowsills,
Intrusion,
New York Dolls,
Anthony Braxton,
Archie Shepp,
Ronan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ken Boothe,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.