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 Australia and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lille.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Adolescents to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
David Axelrod,
Lebanon Hanover,
Derrick May,
The J.B.'s,
Los Fastidios,
B.T. Express,
The Durutti Column,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Carl Craig,
Oneida,
Easy Going,
Newcleus,
Public Enemy,
Underground Resistance,
Tubeway Army,
The Gun Club,
The Dirtbombs,
Brand Nubian,
The Beau Brummels,
Lalann,
DJ Style,
The New Christs,
Tommy Roe,
Fear,
The Fortunes,
Matthew Bourne,
Depeche Mode,
Duran Duran,
Scientists,
James Chance & The Contortions,
David Bowie,
Cluster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heaven 17,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wire,
Colin Newman,
Surgeon,
Fad Gadget,
Drexciya,
Rosa Yemen,
Intrusion,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Wells,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Unrelated Segments,
Throbbing Gristle,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harry Pussy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camberwell Now,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Arab on Radar,
Sonny Sharrock,
Inner City,
Ken Boothe,
Aaron Thompson,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.