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 Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Derrick Morgan to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joe Finger,
Easy Going,
Aloha Tigers,
Underground Resistance,
New Order,
The Gap Band,
David McCallum,
Eurythmics,
Neu!,
Cecil Taylor,
Boredoms,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roy Ayers,
Dawn Penn,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
Kas Product,
Fatback Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Kenny Larkin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Misunderstood,
Pagans,
Warren Ellis,
Alphaville,
Maleditus Sound,
Hoover,
Ohio Players,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris Corsano,
Connie Case,
Youth Brigade,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Litter,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sound,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moebius,
The Barracudas,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang of Four,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Hill,
Brand Nubian,
Surgeon,
Model 500,
Minnie Riperton,
The Evens,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Franke,
Davy DMX,
Sparks,
Charles Mingus,
Pole,
Bluetip,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.