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 Sweden and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 The American Breed to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Archie Shepp,
The Litter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sight & Sound,
David Axelrod,
Deadbeat,
Crash Course in Science,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dennis Brown,
Sun City Girls,
Das Ding,
Massinfluence,
The Birthday Party,
Erykah Badu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Green,
Joensuu 1685,
LL Cool J,
Babytalk,
Peter & Gordon,
Qualms,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cure,
Rekid,
Pussy Galore,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lucky Dragons,
Agent Orange,
Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Peter and Kerry,
ABBA,
Aaron Thompson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Bananas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Max Romeo,
The Names,
Popol Vuh,
Davy DMX,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül II,
Idris Muhammad,
Stiv Bators,
John Holt,
Letta Mbulu,
Zero Boys,
The Invisible,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Suburban Knight,
Whodini,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grauzone,
Con Funk Shun,
PIL,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.