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 Syria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Panda Bear to the grunge 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Section 25,
The Sound,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fluxion,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Near,
Rapeman,
EPMD,
Mad Mike,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Half Japanese,
Lower 48,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fugs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
Godley & Creme,
Animal Collective,
CMW,
Aaron Thompson,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Angels of Light,
Oneida,
Carl Craig,
Ralphi Rosario,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Can,
Marc Almond,
Fatback Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brand Nubian,
Donny Hathaway,
Rod Modell,
PIL,
The Index,
The Victims,
Sister Nancy,
The Young Rascals,
Warsaw,
Dawn Penn,
Hashim,
Essential Logic,
Roger Hodgson,
K-Klass,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Avey Tare,
Grandmaster Flash,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Shadows of Knight,
Agent Orange,
Agitation Free,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.