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 Laos and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the grime 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Joe Finger,
John Lydon,
The Vogues,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Golliwogs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cal Tjader,
Brass Construction,
Amon Düül II,
ABC,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Standells,
Anthony Braxton,
the Bar-Kays,
Quadrant,
the Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alice Coltrane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang of Four,
X-Ray Spex,
Banda Bassotti,
The Wake,
cv313,
Hoover,
Sixth Finger,
Funky Four + One,
Ronnie Foster,
Pagans,
Graham Central Station,
Jacques Brel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Easy Going,
Pere Ubu,
Black Bananas,
Anakelly,
The Stooges,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gories,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Iggy Pop,
Blake Baxter,
Hashim,
Stockholm Monsters,
MC5,
The Victims,
Mark Hollis,
Wire,
Zero Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
Sällskapet,
Hasil Adkins,
Q65,
Aswad,
Colin Newman,
The American Breed,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Siglo XX,
Audionom,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.