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 Finland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Fatback Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Althea and Donna,
Soul II Soul,
Nas,
The Pretty Things,
Dennis Brown,
Ludus,
Quantec,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Byron Stingily,
Rod Modell,
Junior Murvin,
kango's stein massive,
the Slits,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Human League,
Tres Demented,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Skaos,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warsaw,
Soft Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ten City,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Clear Light,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang of Four,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Animal Collective,
The Last Poets,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Deadbeat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
Unwound,
John Cale,
The Gories,
The Fuzztones,
Tomorrow,
Lyres,
Ice-T,
MDC,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Supertramp,
Bad Manners,
X-102,
Basic Channel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aural Exciters,
48th St. Collective,
Amazonics,
The United States of America,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.