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 Oman and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delon & Dalcan to the dance 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Panda Bear,
Guru Guru,
The Mojo Men,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Byrd,
Brand Nubian,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Litter,
Rotary Connection,
New Order,
Yazoo,
Jeff Lynne,
Nas,
Avey Tare,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dawn Penn,
Dennis Brown,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kas Product,
Albert Ayler,
The Real Kids,
The Trojans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Clarke,
Derrick Morgan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
Nico,
The Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Foxx,
The Grass Roots,
Faraquet,
Black Moon,
Lou Christie,
Reagan Youth,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Archie Shepp,
Delta 5,
Brick,
The Human League,
Byron Stingily,
Goldenarms,
Section 25,
Soft Cell,
The Gories,
Electric Prunes,
Pagans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pantaleimon,
Ronnie Foster,
Arcadia,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.