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 Slovenia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 The Cowsills to the funk 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Harmonia,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
The Kinks,
The Pop Group,
Roxy Music,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric Dolphy,
cv313,
Gichy Dan,
Suburban Knight,
L. Decosne,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skaos,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mummies,
Man Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Banda Bassotti,
Ultra Naté,
The United States of America,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Monks,
Joyce Sims,
Cymande,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Laurel Aitken,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Skarface,
Delon & Dalcan,
Organ,
Model 500,
Magazine,
Television,
Ken Boothe,
Minnie Riperton,
Camberwell Now,
Fela Kuti,
Nils Olav,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tubeway Army,
Black Bananas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alphaville,
Boz Scaggs,
Scientists,
Agitation Free,
Monolake,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Halsall,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Golliwogs,
Nirvana,
Bobby Womack,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.