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 Belgium and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 New York Dolls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Black Moon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
D'Angelo,
Brick,
Pole,
Blancmange,
Tres Demented,
Josef K,
Altered Images,
Sarah Menescal,
Crime,
Todd Rundgren,
Joyce Sims,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Magma,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Grass Roots,
Thompson Twins,
Trumans Water,
Das Ding,
Minny Pops,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Residents,
Bauhaus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Cluster,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Easy Going,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Electric Prunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang On A Can,
Jacob Miller,
MC5,
Nirvana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
the Human League,
DNA,
Fela Kuti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sun Ra,
Archie Shepp,
Second Layer,
Camouflage,
The Moody Blues,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick Morgan,
Moss Icon,
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.