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 Iraq and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 Minutemen 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Ituana,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül,
the Human League,
Guru Guru,
Minnie Riperton,
New Age Steppers,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Angels of Light,
Shoche,
Lou Christie,
Blancmange,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joyce Sims,
Boredoms,
Derrick May,
Erasure,
Terry Callier,
Fatback Band,
U.S. Maple,
Loose Ends,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gories,
The Vogues,
Eric Copeland,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef,
Morten Harket,
Magazine,
Isaac Hayes,
The Barracudas,
Das Ding,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
Lalann,
Connie Case,
Cecil Taylor,
Dawn Penn,
Bang On A Can,
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Michelle Simonal,
Barry Ungar,
Rosa Yemen,
Oneida,
The Trojans,
Hasil Adkins,
Zero Boys,
Organ,
FM Einheit,
Nik Kershaw,
Kenny Larkin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Duran Duran,
Godley & Creme,
Surgeon,
Audionom,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.