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 Oman and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ornette Coleman to the grime 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Vogues,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yusef Lateef,
Colin Newman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Prunes,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Maleditus Sound,
Barry Ungar,
June Days,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kurtis Blow,
Scion,
Alton Ellis,
LL Cool J,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The United States of America,
The Kinks,
K-Klass,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Niagra,
World's Most,
Lindisfarne,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Standells,
Warsaw,
The Invisible,
In Retrospect,
The Grass Roots,
Adolescents,
One Last Wish,
The Gories,
Flipper,
Hardrive,
Babytalk,
Urselle,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mars,
kango's stein massive,
The Electric Prunes,
Zero Boys,
E-Dancer,
Eve St. Jones,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Holt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
Sonny Sharrock,
Prince Buster,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.