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 Swaziland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Magma to the disco 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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
AZ,
The Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Agent Orange,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
Piero Umiliani,
Sister Nancy,
Underground Resistance,
The New Christs,
Funkadelic,
Pierre Henry,
the Association,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kayak,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joy Division,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ken Boothe,
New Age Steppers,
The Grass Roots,
Joyce Sims,
DJ Sneak,
Bluetip,
Chrome,
Bill Near,
Delta 5,
June Days,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Sherman,
Iggy Pop,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grey Daturas,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chris & Cosey,
Crooked Eye,
Severed Heads,
Eric Dolphy,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cowsills,
Ornette Coleman,
Flash Fearless,
The Divine Comedy,
H. Thieme,
Quadrant,
Barry Ungar,
Gang of Four,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ituana,
The Gories,
Marmalade,
Sarah Menescal,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.