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 Israel and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Aloha Tigers to the techno 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
The Mummies,
Joy Division,
Intrusion,
Cheater Slicks,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
Crooked Eye,
Sight & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skarface,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
One Last Wish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scan 7,
Roxy Music,
Jandek,
Marvin Gaye,
FM Einheit,
The Pop Group,
Robert Görl,
Sun City Girls,
Essential Logic,
Supertramp,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobby Byrd,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Agent Orange,
Stereo Dub,
The Fortunes,
The Techniques,
Sam Rivers,
The Grass Roots,
Rod Modell,
The Cure,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Terry Callier,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Duran Duran,
Aswad,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alton Ellis,
Interpol,
Arab on Radar,
Fugazi,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cecil Taylor,
Matthew Bourne,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gap Band,
The Martian,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Tremeloes,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.