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 Turkmenistan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Arab on Radar to the rock 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Rotary Connection,
The Fugs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Echospace,
Japan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maurizio,
Terrestrial Tones,
Amazonics,
DJ Sneak,
Jacques Brel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Age Steppers,
Skriet,
The Raincoats,
Kenny Larkin,
Au Pairs,
Popol Vuh,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Magma,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
Model 500,
Gerry Rafferty,
Magazine,
The Happenings,
Sparks,
Byron Stingily,
U.S. Maple,
Crash Course in Science,
Electric Light Orchestra,
H. Thieme,
Deadbeat,
Bobby Byrd,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
Fela Kuti,
The Young Rascals,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erykah Badu,
Adolescents,
AZ,
Intrusion,
The Moleskins,
Skaos,
Steve Hackett,
Dorothy Ashby,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nik Kershaw,
D'Angelo,
Grey Daturas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scion,
The Move,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.