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 Mexico and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 David McCallum to the crunk 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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Arab on Radar,
Unrelated Segments,
Banda Bassotti,
Agitation Free,
Cymande,
Black Sheep,
The Zeros,
David Bowie,
Jacob Miller,
Bizarre Inc.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Crime,
the Soft Cell,
Mandrill,
New Order,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
World's Most,
The Misunderstood,
Average White Band,
FM Einheit,
Radio Birdman,
Matthew Halsall,
Marshall Jefferson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Seeds,
Shuggie Otis,
Anthony Braxton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eden Ahbez,
Lyres,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
China Crisis,
Lakeside,
The Wake,
Dark Day,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Trumans Water,
Silicon Teens,
Wolf Eyes,
AZ,
The Tremeloes,
Hot Snakes,
Morten Harket,
F. McDonald,
Von Mondo,
The Red Krayola,
Black Flag,
Yaz,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Subhumans,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Procol Harum,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gang Green,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.