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 Sweden and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Todd Rundgren,
Inner City,
Frankie Knuckles,
Blake Baxter,
The Black Dice,
The Gories,
Lyres,
Gang Starr,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lindisfarne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DJ Style,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gong,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Metal Thangz,
X-101,
Rapeman,
Malaria!,
The Trojans,
Clear Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Amon Düül II,
U.S. Maple,
MDC,
Curtis Mayfield,
Excepter,
Sixth Finger,
Yusef Lateef,
DNA,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Görl,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mad Mike,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camberwell Now,
Ice-T,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Marvin Gaye,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scientists,
Absolute Body Control,
Prince Buster,
L. Decosne,
Brick,
Brand Nubian,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jerry's Kids,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Q and Not U,
Subhumans,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.