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 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Flipper to the rap 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Minutemen,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
Mars,
Eddi Front,
U.S. Maple,
Roger Hodgson,
Royal Trux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anthony Braxton,
Minny Pops,
Pere Ubu,
Brothers Johnson,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Kinks,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry's Kids,
JFA,
Whodini,
Thompson Twins,
The Dead C,
Dennis Brown,
Judy Mowatt,
Massinfluence,
Sight & Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Henry Cow,
The Cramps,
These Immortal Souls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Swans,
New Order,
The Sound,
The Busters,
Graham Central Station,
Tres Demented,
Kenny Larkin,
Flipper,
Fluxion,
Flash Fearless,
John Coltrane,
Moebius,
Patti Smith,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Au Pairs,
Bob Dylan,
The Golliwogs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quando Quango,
Cybotron,
CMW,
Curtis Mayfield,
David McCallum,
The Knickerbockers,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.