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 Lebanon and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 New Order to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Stooges,
Sparks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Traffic Nightmare,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joensuu 1685,
Donny Hathaway,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lightning Bolt,
Monolake,
Graham Central Station,
Minny Pops,
X-101,
Circle Jerks,
Main Source,
Cheater Slicks,
Cymande,
Rod Modell,
Minnie Riperton,
Soul Sonic Force,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siglo XX,
Public Image Ltd.,
Agent Orange,
The Cramps,
Simply Red,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Gregory Isaacs,
Babytalk,
Juan Atkins,
Minor Threat,
Isaac Hayes,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Althea and Donna,
EPMD,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
K-Klass,
Second Layer,
Deepchord,
Kaleidoscope,
Drexciya,
The Standells,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Sherman,
Banda Bassotti,
Sex Pistols,
Flash Fearless,
Andrew Hill,
Gang of Four,
Terry Callier,
Peter & Gordon,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.