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 Niger and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba 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 The Mummies to the jazz 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bad Manners,
Q and Not U,
Janne Schatter,
Letta Mbulu,
Con Funk Shun,
Whodini,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Circle Jerks,
Urselle,
Bobby Womack,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
This Heat,
Hardrive,
Gong,
The Blackbyrds,
John Coltrane,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
Wire,
Charles Mingus,
The Doors,
the Germs,
JFA,
MDC,
The J.B.'s,
Flash Fearless,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aural Exciters,
The Birthday Party,
Stiv Bators,
Average White Band,
Darondo,
Heaven 17,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eric Copeland,
Ralphi Rosario,
cv313,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The American Breed,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Simply Red,
Index,
Quadrant,
Essential Logic,
Godley & Creme,
Supertramp,
Japan,
Guru Guru,
Ice-T,
Susan Cadogan,
Pylon,
Hoover,
Qualms,
Soft Cell,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.