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 Suriname and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the snare 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the funk 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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
The Slits,
Mo-Dettes,
The Beau Brummels,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sex Pistols,
Groovy Waters,
Patti Smith,
Flash Fearless,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
David McCallum,
Erykah Badu,
Warren Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Archie Shepp,
Grauzone,
Camberwell Now,
Sister Nancy,
Minnie Riperton,
New Age Steppers,
The Black Dice,
Shoche,
Alton Ellis,
Angry Samoans,
Rotary Connection,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boredoms,
Isaac Hayes,
OOIOO,
Sound Behaviour,
One Last Wish,
DNA,
Warsaw,
Lalann,
John Foxx,
Sam Rivers,
Liliput,
Black Sheep,
Joensuu 1685,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David Bowie,
Intrusion,
Minor Threat,
Heaven 17,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
AZ,
Peter & Gordon,
Susan Cadogan,
Graham Central Station,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
Byron Stingily,
Royal Trux,
Lower 48,
Blancmange,
Letta Mbulu,
Anthony Braxton,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.