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 Rwanda and from London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Modern Lovers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Bobby Byrd,
Donald Byrd,
Zero Boys,
OOIOO,
Nas,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Sneak,
Ronan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Infiniti,
Steve Hackett,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tim Buckley,
Mad Mike,
The Gap Band,
Bang On A Can,
UT,
Das Ding,
The Durutti Column,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blancmange,
Wally Richardson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Janne Schatter,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gang of Four,
The Blues Magoos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pere Ubu,
Altered Images,
Chrome,
The Tremeloes,
Jeff Mills,
Gabor Szabo,
Von Mondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Minutemen,
Basic Channel,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fela Kuti,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Suicide,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Bananas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quadrant,
Cecil Taylor,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ohio Players,
Camberwell Now,
The Raincoats,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
kango's stein massive,
Scion,
John Coltrane,
Joe Smooth,
Kaleidoscope,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bill Wells,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.