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 Equatorial Guinea and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Tim Buckley to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Jeff Mills,
The Skatalites,
Zero Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MC5,
Skriet,
D'Angelo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Parry Music,
Gang of Four,
Japan,
Gang Starr,
Visage,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Junior Murvin,
Crime,
Second Layer,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minor Threat,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Black Dice,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shuggie Otis,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Massinfluence,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Youth Brigade,
Stiv Bators,
Althea and Donna,
Khruangbin,
10cc,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Sister Nancy,
The Durutti Column,
Gastr Del Sol,
Outsiders,
Anthony Braxton,
Camouflage,
Bobby Byrd,
Harmonia,
Lou Christie,
The Kinks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
Dual Sessions,
Q65,
Quantec,
Qualms,
Byron Stingily,
Neil Young,
Maurizio,
David McCallum,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.