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 Botswana and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marine Girls to the crunk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Can,
The Zeros,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Erasure,
Stereo Dub,
Model 500,
Reuben Wilson,
The Victims,
Harmonia,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pierre Henry,
Deepchord,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Young Rascals,
Tears for Fears,
Franke,
Michelle Simonal,
Fela Kuti,
The Associates,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aloha Tigers,
R.M.O.,
The Star Department,
The Shadows of Knight,
Q and Not U,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Clarke,
Thee Headcoats,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nirvana,
Archie Shepp,
Sound Behaviour,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ronan,
The Last Poets,
In Retrospect,
Aural Exciters,
New Order,
The Skatalites,
Rod Modell,
Sixth Finger,
The Smiths,
The Count Five,
Colin Newman,
Theoretical Girls,
Reagan Youth,
The Sound,
Quadrant,
Don Cherry,
Maleditus Sound,
Surgeon,
The Gories,
the Germs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Mojo Men,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DNA,
Patti Smith,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.