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 Kyrgyzstan and from Mexico City.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the funk 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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fatback Band,
Flash Fearless,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Underground Resistance,
D'Angelo,
China Crisis,
A Certain Ratio,
New Age Steppers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Funky Four + One,
Sex Pistols,
Kayak,
Deepchord,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
Lindisfarne,
Jacques Brel,
Chris Corsano,
the Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
MDC,
Hardrive,
Gabor Szabo,
Rakim,
Saccharine Trust,
John Holt,
Bluetip,
Pagans,
Cybotron,
Eric Dolphy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crime,
The Five Americans,
Darondo,
Kenny Larkin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Can,
Eli Mardock,
ABC,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
David Axelrod,
Country Teasers,
The Blackbyrds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Davy DMX,
Jesper Dahlback,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nils Olav,
Alphaville,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.