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 Netherlands and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 Terry Callier to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Second Layer,
Mark Hollis,
The Fuzztones,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
Zero Boys,
The Busters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funkadelic,
Robert Hood,
Amazonics,
John Cale,
Erasure,
Camberwell Now,
The Slackers,
The Walker Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
Kas Product,
Mad Mike,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lalann,
Cecil Taylor,
Pulsallama,
Babytalk,
Marc Almond,
Nirvana,
KRS-One,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Reagan Youth,
Danielle Patucci,
Donny Hathaway,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
Unwound,
Cameo,
Funky Four + One,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed,
Skarface,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Tres Demented,
China Crisis,
Moby Grape,
Cal Tjader,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Byrd,
The Red Krayola,
Panda Bear,
Todd Rundgren,
Minnie Riperton,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mo-Dettes,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.