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 Ireland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 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 These Immortal Souls 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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Drexciya,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cheater Slicks,
X-Ray Spex,
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Vladislav Delay,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacques Brel,
Anthony Braxton,
Rakim,
Stiv Bators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dark Day,
Moss Icon,
Rufus Thomas,
Circle Jerks,
The United States of America,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sun Ra,
The Pretty Things,
Sonic Youth,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gabor Szabo,
DJ Sneak,
Royal Trux,
Ornette Coleman,
Fear,
Radiohead,
A Certain Ratio,
Pantytec,
Los Fastidios,
Marc Almond,
Stereo Dub,
OOIOO,
Jawbox,
DJ Style,
Judy Mowatt,
Juan Atkins,
D'Angelo,
China Crisis,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Smog,
Pylon,
Wings,
Morten Harket,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cure,
John Cale,
10cc,
Deakin,
Pole,
Audionom,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.