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 Jordan and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Hot Snakes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
Magazine,
Pantytec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
Ronnie Foster,
Goldenarms,
Q and Not U,
Television Personalities,
Panda Bear,
Max Romeo,
Unrelated Segments,
Judy Mowatt,
Erykah Badu,
Matthew Bourne,
Average White Band,
Barrington Levy,
Black Sheep,
DJ Sneak,
Fat Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
The Electric Prunes,
Crooked Eye,
Tom Boy,
Porter Ricks,
Negative Approach,
Mars,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Shuggie Otis,
Aural Exciters,
Wally Richardson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Danielle Patucci,
Icehouse,
June of 44,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Golliwogs,
Japan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Moebius,
Blancmange,
PIL,
Zero Boys,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bronski Beat,
Underground Resistance,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Wyatt,
Cal Tjader,
Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.