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 Bahrain and from Spokane.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thee Headcoats to the techno 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb 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 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Chris Corsano,
The New Christs,
ABBA,
Parry Music,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young,
Tubeway Army,
The Busters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Görl,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
These Immortal Souls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Goldenarms,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Womack,
Subhumans,
The Remains,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Bourne,
Prince Buster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Zeros,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dave Gahan,
Ultra Naté,
Glambeats Corp.,
Derrick May,
Sound Behaviour,
Morten Harket,
John Foxx,
Crime,
Monolake,
Slave,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pere Ubu,
kango's stein massive,
Yaz,
A Certain Ratio,
Soul Sonic Force,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cecil Taylor,
LL Cool J,
Lakeside,
The Golliwogs,
Yazoo,
Bronski Beat,
The Grass Roots,
Bad Manners,
Anthony Braxton,
Kaleidoscope,
Roy Ayers,
The Barracudas,
the Sonics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scott Walker,
The Doors,
Stetsasonic,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.