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 Jordan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ituana to the rap 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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bill Wells,
The Fortunes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
OOIOO,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
The Fuzztones,
Dark Day,
The Mojo Men,
New York Dolls,
Pantytec,
The Fugs,
Rotary Connection,
The American Breed,
Echospace,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Techniques,
Danielle Patucci,
Lucky Dragons,
Charles Mingus,
Visage,
Stiv Bators,
Negative Approach,
Q65,
Shuggie Otis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hashim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Qualms,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Sherman,
Harry Pussy,
Main Source,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Niagra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Motions,
Peter and Kerry,
Dual Sessions,
AZ,
Supertramp,
The Misunderstood,
Cheater Slicks,
Schoolly D,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blues Magoos,
The Moody Blues,
Joensuu 1685,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.