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 Greece and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare 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 Dual Sessions to the rap 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oblivians,
Lou Reed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Visage,
Leonard Cohen,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pole,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang of Four,
The Five Americans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Birthday Party,
Sound Behaviour,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pussy Galore,
Radiohead,
Kurtis Blow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Janne Schatter,
Au Pairs,
Shuggie Otis,
Reuben Wilson,
Marvin Gaye,
John Coltrane,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Walker Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cameo,
Mad Mike,
David Bowie,
Faraquet,
The Fuzztones,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Gladiators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Slick Rick,
Sparks,
Intrusion,
The Doobie Brothers,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
Supertramp,
Wings,
Davy DMX,
Spandau Ballet,
Negative Approach,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pere Ubu,
Gong,
Lungfish,
The Invisible,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moss Icon,
Scientists,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.