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 Honduras and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Lalo Schifrin to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Dual Sessions,
Dead Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Subhumans,
Tommy Roe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bush Tetras,
The Residents,
Junior Murvin,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thee Headcoats,
Sparks,
Byron Stingily,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Tubeway Army,
The Walker Brothers,
Lightning Bolt,
These Immortal Souls,
MDC,
Slick Rick,
DNA,
Sugar Minott,
Tom Boy,
Chrome,
Carl Craig,
Monolake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Young Marble Giants,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crispy Ambulance,
Essential Logic,
Motorama,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rites of Spring,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Magma,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Soft Cell,
Royal Trux,
Freddie Wadling,
Inner City,
The Blues Magoos,
Guru Guru,
This Heat,
Eric Dolphy,
PIL,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Todd Rundgren,
Danielle Patucci,
Todd Terry,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.