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 Haiti and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Moss Icon to the electroclash 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Faust,
Jacob Miller,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tomorrow,
Unrelated Segments,
The Move,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soft Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Royal Trux,
Kenny Larkin,
Agitation Free,
The Shadows of Knight,
Public Image Ltd.,
T.S.O.L.,
Subhumans,
Lindisfarne,
Flipper,
The Music Machine,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Smoke,
Main Source,
Cymande,
DNA,
Peter & Gordon,
Technova,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aswad,
Slave,
The J.B.'s,
Quadrant,
The Raincoats,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Agent Orange,
John Lydon,
The Motions,
Minor Threat,
Oneida,
Siglo XX,
Henry Cow,
Banda Bassotti,
Arthur Verocai,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Walker Brothers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Albert Ayler,
New Age Steppers,
The Fortunes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Patti Smith,
R.M.O.,
Reuben Wilson,
Pantaleimon,
The Moleskins,
Roxette,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.