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 Namibia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fatback Band to the rock 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
June of 44,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fat Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter and Kerry,
the Association,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Second Layer,
Ultravox,
Gichy Dan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Martian,
D'Angelo,
Roger Hodgson,
Skarface,
Maleditus Sound,
Swans,
Sun City Girls,
Mantronix,
Organ,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aural Exciters,
Ossler,
Soft Cell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Scientists,
Wolf Eyes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Zeros,
A Certain Ratio,
Lucky Dragons,
Chris Corsano,
Sonic Youth,
Desert Stars,
Simply Red,
Cybotron,
Roy Ayers,
Urselle,
K-Klass,
The Seeds,
Eric B and Rakim,
Excepter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mad Mike,
the Swans,
Drexciya,
Aaron Thompson,
Brass Construction,
Howard Jones,
Fugazi,
Newcleus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
One Last Wish,
Gabor Szabo,
Lakeside,
China Crisis,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.