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 South Africa and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bootsy Collins to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Groovy Waters,
Tomorrow,
Isaac Hayes,
Icehouse,
Scratch Acid,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Accadde A,
Bush Tetras,
Section 25,
Gerry Rafferty,
Popol Vuh,
Alice Coltrane,
Mark Hollis,
Joe Smooth,
The Angels of Light,
Rites of Spring,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Angry Samoans,
Ultravox,
MC5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Junior Murvin,
The Doobie Brothers,
EPMD,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Tres Demented,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eve St. Jones,
Fatback Band,
Echospace,
Masters at Work,
Unrelated Segments,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
Schoolly D,
Danielle Patucci,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bauhaus,
The Residents,
Sonic Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
The Offenders,
Minutemen,
cv313,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mummies,
Soul Sonic Force,
A Certain Ratio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Peter and Kerry,
Bluetip,
Man Parrish,
Shoche,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.