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 Latvia and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 cv313 to the jazz 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Cecil Taylor,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Don Cherry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wally Richardson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joe Smooth,
Black Flag,
The Standells,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Remains,
Pierre Henry,
Drive Like Jehu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sarah Menescal,
Basic Channel,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
Funkadelic,
Sight & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brass Construction,
Slave,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Surgeon,
Grey Daturas,
The Vogues,
D'Angelo,
Johnny Clarke,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harmonia,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
Alison Limerick,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Green,
The Last Poets,
Moebius,
X-Ray Spex,
Moss Icon,
Camouflage,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
The Skatalites,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
H. Thieme,
John Lydon,
Scion,
Parry Music,
Shuggie Otis,
The Moleskins,
Nas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.