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 Kiribati and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Jakarta.
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 harpsichord 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 Jerry's Kids to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Drexciya,
the Sonics,
Kaleidoscope,
Mary Jane Girls,
Interpol,
Black Sheep,
OOIOO,
Dead Boys,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Metal Thangz,
Eden Ahbez,
Tres Demented,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Archie Shepp,
Con Funk Shun,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scientists,
Eurythmics,
The United States of America,
Aloha Tigers,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Motorama,
The Standells,
the Association,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fear,
Loose Ends,
Sandy B,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Icehouse,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sisters of Mercy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
Idris Muhammad,
Ornette Coleman,
48th St. Collective,
Trumans Water,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Hot Snakes,
The Motions,
Popol Vuh,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Birthday Party,
John Lydon,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Slave,
The Seeds,
F. McDonald,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Raincoats,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joyce Sims,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.