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 Kiribati 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Glenn Branca to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Reagan Youth,
One Last Wish,
Patti Smith,
Grey Daturas,
Bootsy Collins,
ABBA,
Godley & Creme,
Scott Walker,
the Normal,
Letta Mbulu,
Rakim,
Piero Umiliani,
U.S. Maple,
The Offenders,
Donald Byrd,
Kayak,
Rekid,
Amazonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Erykah Badu,
The Sonics,
Das Ding,
Los Fastidios,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camouflage,
Soft Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Roxette,
China Crisis,
Lindisfarne,
The Cramps,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ossler,
Sugar Minott,
New Order,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
Saccharine Trust,
The Shadows of Knight,
Zapp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delta 5,
Cecil Taylor,
Flipper,
Brick,
JFA,
Peter & Gordon,
Altered Images,
Iggy Pop,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Eden Ahbez,
Jeff Mills,
Underground Resistance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Outsiders,
Rotary Connection,
Stetsasonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.