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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eve St. Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Sonny Sharrock,
B.T. Express,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Kas Product,
Excepter,
Massinfluence,
La Düsseldorf,
Gregory Isaacs,
MC5,
Rosa Yemen,
Monolake,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slits,
Y Pants,
Hashim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lyres,
Donny Hathaway,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Mills,
Absolute Body Control,
Joey Negro,
The Sound,
Wasted Youth,
Radiohead,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flipper,
Fear,
Jacques Brel,
Agent Orange,
Arab on Radar,
The Martian,
Robert Wyatt,
Derrick May,
AZ,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Normal,
the Soft Cell,
Eurythmics,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cecil Taylor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Das Ding,
The Mojo Men,
Section 25,
The Gap Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lungfish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Al Stewart,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Moody Blues,
Theoretical Girls,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.