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 Cyprus and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Moss Icon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kenny Larkin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Robert Hood,
The Angels of Light,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soul II Soul,
Cal Tjader,
Pagans,
T. Rex,
Sandy B,
Moebius,
Reagan Youth,
Warren Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Adolescents,
Fat Boys,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Terry,
The Blackbyrds,
Cheater Slicks,
Harmonia,
The Knickerbockers,
Can,
Hardrive,
Little Man,
James White and The Blacks,
the Slits,
Henry Cow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
a-ha,
The Associates,
Boredoms,
Terry Callier,
Minnie Riperton,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jacques Brel,
Nas,
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
Ken Boothe,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
Bobby Womack,
Y Pants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skaos,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rotary Connection,
The Grass Roots,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mission of Burma,
Royal Trux,
Popol Vuh,
The Real Kids,
Half Japanese,
Q and Not U,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.