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 France and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Althea and Donna to the funk 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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Subhumans,
Groovy Waters,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mojo Men,
Junior Murvin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Dolphy,
The Smiths,
Khruangbin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Reuben Wilson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blancmange,
Eddi Front,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
X-101,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dual Sessions,
Bizarre Inc.,
DNA,
Derrick Morgan,
Freddie Wadling,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rekid,
Sun Ra,
Goldenarms,
The New Christs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Dave Clark Five,
Smog,
Scan 7,
Model 500,
A Certain Ratio,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
Harry Pussy,
Warren Ellis,
Accadde A,
Angry Samoans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Clear Light,
Excepter,
Talk Talk,
Gichy Dan,
The Vogues,
Hardrive,
Don Cherry,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Howard Jones,
Faust,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Human League,
Joensuu 1685,
UT,
Pere Ubu,
Radio Birdman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kenny Larkin,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.