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 Belize and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nas 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Crash Course in Science,
Ronan,
Delta 5,
Ten City,
Surgeon,
Pussy Galore,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Halsall,
Eli Mardock,
Cymande,
Lucky Dragons,
Wally Richardson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fuzztones,
The Young Rascals,
Leonard Cohen,
Trumans Water,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
One Last Wish,
Warren Ellis,
Marc Almond,
Shoche,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lindisfarne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultra Naté,
Slave,
Ultimate Spinach,
Animal Collective,
PIL,
Eric B and Rakim,
MDC,
The Buckinghams,
Sister Nancy,
The Pretty Things,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Second Layer,
Adolescents,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fugazi,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Count Five,
Arab on Radar,
Quadrant,
Maleditus Sound,
Scrapy,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.