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 Bulgaria and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Robert Palmer 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 Monochrome Set to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
Erykah Badu,
Johnny Clarke,
Barry Ungar,
Mo-Dettes,
Cecil Taylor,
Schoolly D,
Man Parrish,
Scott Walker,
Minnie Riperton,
Yazoo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sight & Sound,
The Durutti Column,
Circle Jerks,
Cameo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
In Retrospect,
The Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerri Chandler,
Yusef Lateef,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ludus,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
X-Ray Spex,
John Coltrane,
The Move,
Surgeon,
Masters at Work,
Television,
The Five Americans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
Sam Rivers,
Talk Talk,
Marc Almond,
Crispian St. Peters,
Spandau Ballet,
The Neon Judgement,
Theoretical Girls,
Sixth Finger,
Eurythmics,
Jeff Mills,
Hoover,
Chrome,
Reuben Wilson,
Joe Finger,
L. Decosne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rosa Yemen,
the Association,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.