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 Brazil and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Knickerbockers to the crunk 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter and Kerry,
Minutemen,
Dennis Brown,
Barrington Levy,
R.M.O.,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soulsonic Force,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Toni Rubio,
Avey Tare,
Fat Boys,
Duran Duran,
Mark Hollis,
Scion,
Aural Exciters,
Letta Mbulu,
Buzzcocks,
Tomorrow,
Main Source,
Kurtis Blow,
Icehouse,
The Moleskins,
The Five Americans,
Alice Coltrane,
Matthew Halsall,
The Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
Hardrive,
Moebius,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Dave Clark Five,
MC5,
Bobby Womack,
Max Romeo,
Prince Buster,
The Monochrome Set,
Quando Quango,
Nation of Ulysses,
Magazine,
Black Moon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Hot Snakes,
X-101,
Mad Mike,
Donald Byrd,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Happenings,
Negative Approach,
Warren Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
Pere Ubu,
Flash Fearless,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nik Kershaw,
Smog,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.