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 Congo and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Unwound to the jazz 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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Japan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Maleditus Sound,
Lower 48,
Swell Maps,
Excepter,
EPMD,
Television,
Skaos,
Derrick May,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
a-ha,
Surgeon,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Remains,
Gong,
Little Man,
Camouflage,
Marvin Gaye,
Derrick Morgan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Iggy Pop,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stiv Bators,
Rosa Yemen,
Henry Cow,
David McCallum,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Crooked Eye,
Sonic Youth,
The Birthday Party,
New Age Steppers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suicide,
The Red Krayola,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cure,
Tomorrow,
Vainqueur,
Siglo XX,
Index,
New Order,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronan,
Joy Division,
Cluster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Monks,
Amon Düül,
Flipper,
In Retrospect,
Section 25,
Deepchord,
Suburban Knight,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Sonics,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.