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 Thailand and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Erasure to the punk 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Moby Grape,
Minor Threat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warsaw,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Deepchord,
Skarface,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Al Stewart,
Eddi Front,
PIL,
Black Flag,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hardrive,
The Busters,
FM Einheit,
Bluetip,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
KRS-One,
Scan 7,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kevin Saunderson,
June Days,
Jimmy McGriff,
Danielle Patucci,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Massinfluence,
Rakim,
X-102,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alphaville,
Pole,
The Dave Clark Five,
Yazoo,
The Angels of Light,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
cv313,
The Names,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joyce Sims,
Stereo Dub,
Kurtis Blow,
The Real Kids,
Marmalade,
The Black Dice,
Kaleidoscope,
Don Cherry,
Livin' Joy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gil Scott Heron,
E-Dancer,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brothers Johnson,
Brand Nubian,
Byron Stingily,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.