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 Benin and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Gang Green,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monolake,
Prince Buster,
U.S. Maple,
Susan Cadogan,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cure,
Tubeway Army,
Ken Boothe,
The Index,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Golliwogs,
Livin' Joy,
Mars,
the Soft Cell,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül II,
Kayak,
Qualms,
Monks,
Crispy Ambulance,
David McCallum,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalo Schifrin,
Siglo XX,
Mantronix,
Mission of Burma,
Mark Hollis,
Darondo,
Organ,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Throbbing Gristle,
Cymande,
The Tremeloes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
The Vogues,
Lakeside,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Judy Mowatt,
The Doors,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sound,
The Standells,
Niagra,
Stetsasonic,
Al Stewart,
Crime,
Motorama,
Eric Dolphy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Dead C,
The Velvet Underground,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Interpol,
Sonic Youth,
The Invisible,
Gichy Dan,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.