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 New Zealand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Cal Tjader to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jeff Mills,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Reagan Youth,
Charles Mingus,
Flipper,
Deadbeat,
The Gap Band,
LL Cool J,
The Happenings,
Moby Grape,
Marmalade,
Sister Nancy,
Liliput,
The Fall,
Godley & Creme,
Spoonie Gee,
Siglo XX,
Panda Bear,
Amon Düül II,
Roy Ayers,
Man Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
David McCallum,
Johnny Clarke,
Inner City,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kayak,
World's Most,
Babytalk,
Archie Shepp,
Sound Behaviour,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roger Hodgson,
The Techniques,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eddi Front,
The Leaves,
Eurythmics,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Todd Terry,
Brass Construction,
Audionom,
The Buckinghams,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mr. Review,
Jeff Lynne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Schoolly D,
a-ha,
T.S.O.L.,
X-101,
the Association,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Swans,
Ultravox,
Nils Olav,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Robert Wyatt,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.