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 Latvia and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare 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 Mantronix to the electroclash 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Jerry's Kids,
Andrew Hill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
Stetsasonic,
X-101,
MC5,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ponytail,
Vainqueur,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Names,
Icehouse,
Rhythm & Sound,
Carl Craig,
The Dead C,
PIL,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dual Sessions,
Nico,
Iggy Pop,
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Japan,
New Age Steppers,
Suicide,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pole,
Cecil Taylor,
The Durutti Column,
Suburban Knight,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eric Copeland,
Lightning Bolt,
Cal Tjader,
Sam Rivers,
T. Rex,
Duran Duran,
Bauhaus,
Spandau Ballet,
Animal Collective,
Amazonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Dolphy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yaz,
Brass Construction,
Moby Grape,
Flipper,
The Moleskins,
AZ,
Tom Boy,
Yellowson,
Ice-T,
Ronnie Foster,
Graham Central Station,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.