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 Congo and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mars to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Parry Music,
Alice Coltrane,
Rhythm & Sound,
Minnie Riperton,
Shuggie Otis,
Gang of Four,
Quando Quango,
Jeru the Damaja,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Qualms,
the Normal,
The Remains,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon,
Procol Harum,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
Can,
DJ Sneak,
The Offenders,
Camouflage,
Swans,
Young Marble Giants,
Newcleus,
Japan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grauzone,
Hardrive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brick,
Soul II Soul,
Iggy Pop,
Ronan,
Hasil Adkins,
Derrick May,
Organ,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
David McCallum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bluetip,
Half Japanese,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Massinfluence,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
CMW,
Eric Copeland,
Sixth Finger,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABBA,
The Leaves,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers,
The Happenings,
Suicide,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.