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 Uruguay and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DJ Style to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Anthony Braxton,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dark Day,
Bauhaus,
Prince Buster,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brick,
Urselle,
Faust,
Pussy Galore,
Dorothy Ashby,
L. Decosne,
The Dead C,
X-102,
The Cowsills,
World's Most,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Order,
10cc,
Cameo,
Young Marble Giants,
Barclay James Harvest,
Blossom Toes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare,
Fela Kuti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pole,
Deadbeat,
Wally Richardson,
The Stooges,
Funky Four + One,
The Skatalites,
Tears for Fears,
Judy Mowatt,
The Golliwogs,
Schoolly D,
Radio Birdman,
Vainqueur,
Derrick May,
Gong,
Jacob Miller,
Unwound,
Suicide,
Arab on Radar,
Lindisfarne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeru the Damaja,
Danielle Patucci,
Altered Images,
The Move,
Duran Duran,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiohead,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.