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 Cambodia and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anakelly to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Be Bop Deluxe,
Josef K,
World's Most,
B.T. Express,
Agitation Free,
Black Bananas,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dennis Brown,
Y Pants,
Grandmaster Flash,
Make Up,
Moss Icon,
Aswad,
The American Breed,
Steve Hackett,
David Axelrod,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Faraquet,
Sugar Minott,
Terrestrial Tones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Altered Images,
Skaos,
New Order,
Mo-Dettes,
The Zeros,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Fluxion,
The Doors,
Slick Rick,
ABBA,
DNA,
Supertramp,
The Invisible,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funkadelic,
Bush Tetras,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monochrome Set,
Cybotron,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Toasters,
Half Japanese,
Graham Central Station,
Nas,
Sister Nancy,
Khruangbin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Swans,
Nils Olav,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.