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 Iraq and from Bremen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Iggy Pop to the crunk 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Japan,
Public Enemy,
Underground Resistance,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Wake,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Stereo Dub,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sam Rivers,
The Star Department,
Sight & Sound,
John Holt,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
Yusef Lateef,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ken Boothe,
The Techniques,
X-102,
Newcleus,
Josef K,
Matthew Bourne,
Silicon Teens,
Hardrive,
KRS-One,
Alton Ellis,
The Human League,
Henry Cow,
Vainqueur,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Litter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Reuben Wilson,
This Heat,
Crooked Eye,
New Age Steppers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Slackers,
Deepchord,
Faraquet,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Velvet Underground,
John Foxx,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Max Romeo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kenny Larkin,
Outsiders,
Hashim,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Pretty Things,
Barbara Tucker,
Interpol,
Rakim,
Janne Schatter,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.