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 Nepal and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sun City Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
Oblivians,
EPMD,
Eli Mardock,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neil Young,
The Searchers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Starr,
The Happenings,
Popol Vuh,
Bluetip,
The Shadows of Knight,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Selecter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Zeros,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pussy Galore,
Radiohead,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Derrick May,
Magma,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacques Brel,
Junior Murvin,
Brothers Johnson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roy Ayers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gladiators,
Ossler,
Brick,
Gichy Dan,
Mandrill,
The Associates,
Sandy B,
Todd Terry,
the Swans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flamin' Groovies,
Surgeon,
OOIOO,
Lindisfarne,
Cecil Taylor,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yusef Lateef,
Brand Nubian,
E-Dancer,
The Walker Brothers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Malaria!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Iggy Pop,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.