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 Malaysia and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Music Machine to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Seeds,
The United States of America,
Quando Quango,
Tropical Tobacco,
Average White Band,
Jandek,
John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Boredoms,
The Gap Band,
Unwound,
Amon Düül,
Delon & Dalcan,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!,
Iggy Pop,
The Gun Club,
Jawbox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Barry Ungar,
Grey Daturas,
Q and Not U,
Sparks,
Charles Mingus,
New York Dolls,
Pagans,
Roger Hodgson,
Brick,
The Real Kids,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Kayak,
Warren Ellis,
Lyres,
The Vogues,
Agent Orange,
Pole,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Clear Light,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hardrive,
Gong,
Lou Christie,
New Age Steppers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Arthur Verocai,
Oblivians,
Deadbeat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Khruangbin,
Tommy Roe,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.