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 Denmark and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lebanon Hanover to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Youth Brigade,
Al Stewart,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Star Department,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mr. Review,
Susan Cadogan,
Tom Boy,
Livin' Joy,
Electric Prunes,
Howard Jones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Con Funk Shun,
The Young Rascals,
Deakin,
Little Man,
Reuben Wilson,
Deepchord,
The Angels of Light,
H. Thieme,
Pantaleimon,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roy Ayers,
The Slackers,
Rapeman,
Y Pants,
Visage,
Jandek,
Faraquet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Technova,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Moleskins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
The Count Five,
Funky Four + One,
cv313,
Lou Reed,
The Victims,
Bobby Womack,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
Isaac Hayes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sandy B,
Minny Pops,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chris Corsano,
Charles Mingus,
Soft Machine,
The Barracudas,
The Trojans,
The Fuzztones,
New York Dolls,
Metal Thangz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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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.