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 Burkina and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the funk 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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Dorothy Ashby,
Erykah Badu,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
The Residents,
Excepter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sight & Sound,
Quantec,
Joe Smooth,
John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Make Up,
T.S.O.L.,
the Germs,
Tom Boy,
L. Decosne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mummies,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Main Source,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marine Girls,
Mr. Review,
Chrome,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacques Brel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rod Modell,
Porter Ricks,
Iggy Pop,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nirvana,
Theoretical Girls,
Byron Stingily,
Ken Boothe,
In Retrospect,
Japan,
The Sound,
The Black Dice,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
CMW,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stiv Bators,
Judy Mowatt,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cure,
Ornette Coleman,
Organ,
The Trojans,
Minny Pops,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.