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 Jordan and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Juan Atkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
PIL,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aloha Tigers,
Youth Brigade,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Germs,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nik Kershaw,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fluxion,
Yaz,
The Cure,
Smog,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
Mary Jane Girls,
One Last Wish,
Blancmange,
Crime,
Panda Bear,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Amazonics,
Porter Ricks,
Fat Boys,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Tom Boy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quantec,
Khruangbin,
CMW,
H. Thieme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minor Threat,
Qualms,
The Litter,
Das Ding,
Ken Boothe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
Lightning Bolt,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Camberwell Now,
Scrapy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rites of Spring,
Wire,
Gil Scott Heron,
Can,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.