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 South Sudan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes 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 Flash Fearless to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Roxy Music,
Scratch Acid,
Jacques Brel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Martian,
Clear Light,
Sugar Minott,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Harpers Bizarre,
Leonard Cohen,
Interpol,
Spandau Ballet,
Anthony Braxton,
Roger Hodgson,
Talk Talk,
Easy Going,
The Names,
The Slackers,
Anakelly,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Los Fastidios,
Pussy Galore,
Patti Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
Yaz,
CMW,
China Crisis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Trumans Water,
The Mojo Men,
Eli Mardock,
Newcleus,
Pagans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Terry Callier,
The Offenders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sarah Menescal,
Fear,
The Sonics,
Boredoms,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
Althea and Donna,
Graham Central Station,
Kurtis Blow,
Fela Kuti,
The Beau Brummels,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Steve Hackett,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cluster,
Scientists,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Oblivians,
Joyce Sims,
These Immortal Souls,
Babytalk,
Rites of Spring,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.