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 Kenya and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Amazonics to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
The Knickerbockers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vainqueur,
The Fugs,
Moebius,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Desert Stars,
cv313,
The Electric Prunes,
Suburban Knight,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
This Heat,
Tom Boy,
Joyce Sims,
La Düsseldorf,
ABC,
Easy Going,
Marvin Gaye,
Don Cherry,
The United States of America,
Gil Scott Heron,
Infiniti,
Archie Shepp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scratch Acid,
Tubeway Army,
AZ,
Reuben Wilson,
The Sonics,
Subhumans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker,
Hasil Adkins,
Porter Ricks,
Pole,
Bob Dylan,
The Associates,
Henry Cow,
The Angels of Light,
the Human League,
Donald Byrd,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Skatalites,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monks,
Alison Limerick,
Buzzcocks,
Bill Near,
Bobby Womack,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Al Stewart,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris & Cosey,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.