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 Belgium and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 the Swans to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
AZ,
Iggy Pop,
PIL,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eve St. Jones,
Technova,
Maurizio,
48th St. Collective,
Glambeats Corp.,
Unwound,
Robert Görl,
Moby Grape,
Public Image Ltd.,
Franke,
Chris Corsano,
Yusef Lateef,
Section 25,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Monolake,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Coltrane,
Marvin Gaye,
Easy Going,
Young Marble Giants,
Hasil Adkins,
Shoche,
Skriet,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sällskapet,
Pantytec,
Andrew Hill,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wings,
Rekid,
Man Eating Sloth,
Crime,
The Busters,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pierre Henry,
Zero Boys,
Ice-T,
The Saints,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Babytalk,
John Lydon,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Red Krayola,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Knickerbockers,
Eric Copeland,
the Swans,
Sparks,
Sun Ra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Drexciya,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.