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 Egypt and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
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 oboe 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 Q and Not U to the electroclash 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chris & Cosey,
Kaleidoscope,
Slave,
Grey Daturas,
Nation of Ulysses,
Skarface,
Lyres,
Depeche Mode,
Minnie Riperton,
The Vogues,
Warren Ellis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalann,
Barrington Levy,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
Nick Fraelich,
the Association,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soft Machine,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kenny Larkin,
Steve Hackett,
Lower 48,
Deadbeat,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Happenings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Soul II Soul,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maurizio,
Barclay James Harvest,
CMW,
Pussy Galore,
MC5,
Man Parrish,
Nas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Main Source,
Bill Wells,
Flipper,
The Litter,
Second Layer,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül II,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Seeds,
Cybotron,
Swans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moby Grape,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pantaleimon,
JFA,
The Star Department,
Sun Ra,
Saccharine Trust,
The Names,
Sun City Girls,
The Skatalites,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.