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 China and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Little Man to the punk 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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
The New Christs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marmalade,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Brass Construction,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slackers,
Alton Ellis,
Surgeon,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Skatalites,
The Dirtbombs,
Depeche Mode,
CMW,
The Buckinghams,
Flamin' Groovies,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fear,
K-Klass,
Yusef Lateef,
PIL,
Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Procol Harum,
Yaz,
Yellowson,
Terry Callier,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kerri Chandler,
Kaleidoscope,
Maurizio,
Derrick Morgan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Cale,
Wire,
The Blues Magoos,
Circle Jerks,
Jerry's Kids,
Patti Smith,
Quantec,
John Coltrane,
FM Einheit,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Faust,
Agent Orange,
Von Mondo,
Brand Nubian,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gap Band,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.