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 Uzbekistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron 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 Spoonie Gee to the dance 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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Roxette,
Eden Ahbez,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Hardrive,
The Music Machine,
Faust,
World's Most,
Arthur Verocai,
Fugazi,
Gichy Dan,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mojo Men,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joy Division,
Infiniti,
Tubeway Army,
Mark Hollis,
Pharoah Sanders,
June of 44,
K-Klass,
Alice Coltrane,
Dead Boys,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Drexciya,
Cybotron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Simply Red,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
James White and The Blacks,
Mo-Dettes,
Cymande,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flipper,
Yaz,
Rekid,
John Cale,
48th St. Collective,
Patti Smith,
The Cramps,
Andrew Hill,
The Sound,
Brothers Johnson,
Aloha Tigers,
Sight & Sound,
Malaria!,
Roy Ayers,
Chris Corsano,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tim Buckley,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Byron Stingily,
Main Source,
Scratch Acid,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultravox,
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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.