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 Russia and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grunge 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Golliwogs,
Ken Boothe,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deepchord,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Leaves,
The Red Krayola,
Sparks,
June Days,
PIL,
Rakim,
Pere Ubu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fugazi,
Sister Nancy,
the Germs,
R.M.O.,
Hardrive,
Lower 48,
the Soft Cell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
Connie Case,
kango's stein massive,
Underground Resistance,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Monochrome Set,
Soulsonic Force,
Negative Approach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
K-Klass,
Ludus,
Gong,
Young Marble Giants,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Martian,
Camberwell Now,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sonics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marvin Gaye,
Ralphi Rosario,
Depeche Mode,
Porter Ricks,
Magma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.