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 Andorra and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wolf Eyes 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Albert Ayler,
DJ Style,
Hot Snakes,
Black Flag,
Pole,
Radiohead,
Metal Thangz,
Sixth Finger,
Mantronix,
Livin' Joy,
The Red Krayola,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
Chris Corsano,
Kerrie Biddell,
Slave,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Normal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Fania All-Stars,
Robert Hood,
Young Marble Giants,
Cybotron,
Infiniti,
The Sound,
Soft Machine,
the Swans,
Lee Hazlewood,
FM Einheit,
Goldenarms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
UT,
Nas,
Grandmaster Flash,
KRS-One,
The Offenders,
Freddie Wadling,
Davy DMX,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultra Naté,
Junior Murvin,
Animal Collective,
Donald Byrd,
The Seeds,
Franke,
Outsiders,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
Mad Mike,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sparks,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
The Beau Brummels,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.