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 Paraguay and from New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Sheep 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
The Victims,
Little Man,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lower 48,
The Busters,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Procol Harum,
The Gun Club,
Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Minor Threat,
Swell Maps,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nas,
The Doors,
The Gap Band,
CMW,
Sun Ra,
James White and The Blacks,
Sight & Sound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Whodini,
Radio Birdman,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gories,
Big Daddy Kane,
B.T. Express,
Unrelated Segments,
Stiv Bators,
Wolf Eyes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Kinks,
Aswad,
The Saints,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Marmalade,
Faraquet,
Gil Scott Heron,
This Heat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Byrd,
Slick Rick,
In Retrospect,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hashim,
Groovy Waters,
The Grass Roots,
Lakeside,
Amon Düül II,
Kenny Larkin,
The Young Rascals,
The Offenders,
Blake Baxter,
Franke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camouflage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.