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 Iran and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb 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 Delon & Dalcan to the dance 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bill Wells,
Lalann,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül,
Man Parrish,
Slave,
The Stooges,
The Misunderstood,
Patti Smith,
Clear Light,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-Ray Spex,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Bananas,
Shoche,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Saints,
Scratch Acid,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Quando Quango,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Half Japanese,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kayak,
The Wake,
Scrapy,
Derrick Morgan,
New Age Steppers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Velvet Underground,
Radio Birdman,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Standells,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Davy DMX,
Erasure,
The Barracudas,
Byron Stingily,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Idris Muhammad,
Babytalk,
Throbbing Gristle,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Los Fastidios,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed,
Dennis Brown,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.