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 Japan and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Barracudas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Chris & Cosey,
Sällskapet,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Index,
Yellowson,
Procol Harum,
Man Parrish,
The Invisible,
Ten City,
Aloha Tigers,
Vladislav Delay,
Pagans,
Qualms,
The Knickerbockers,
Maurizio,
Skaos,
Half Japanese,
Ponytail,
Minny Pops,
Shoche,
Fear,
Agitation Free,
John Lydon,
Dark Day,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Kinks,
Negative Approach,
Deakin,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gerry Rafferty,
T. Rex,
The Names,
Sexual Harrassment,
the Association,
Gang Starr,
Tres Demented,
Jandek,
The Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Carl Craig,
Robert Wyatt,
World's Most,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Supertramp,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flash Fearless,
Nik Kershaw,
Stetsasonic,
Stiv Bators,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Red Krayola,
Tom Boy,
Brothers Johnson,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Machine,
Patti Smith,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.