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 Macedonia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Deakin to the funk 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Can,
Wally Richardson,
The Misunderstood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Television Personalities,
Pharoah Sanders,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
The American Breed,
Kevin Saunderson,
Davy DMX,
Jacob Miller,
Harry Pussy,
Robert Wyatt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Essential Logic,
DNA,
Dennis Brown,
Donny Hathaway,
Soft Cell,
The Motions,
Porter Ricks,
Groovy Waters,
E-Dancer,
Thee Headcoats,
Cybotron,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fire Engines,
Junior Murvin,
Surgeon,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pere Ubu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neu!,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Todd Rundgren,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon,
Popol Vuh,
Minor Threat,
Black Bananas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
The Pretty Things,
Rotary Connection,
Sarah Menescal,
Brothers Johnson,
John Cale,
Bobby Womack,
Lightning Bolt,
Rufus Thomas,
Ten City,
Crispian St. Peters,
Yellowson,
Albert Ayler,
Mars,
Duran Duran,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.