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 Bhutan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Yusef Lateef 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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultra Naté,
The Monochrome Set,
Godley & Creme,
Smog,
The Gories,
Arthur Verocai,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The United States of America,
Quadrant,
Bootsy Collins,
Young Marble Giants,
The Dirtbombs,
Janne Schatter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Glenn Branca,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Anthony Braxton,
John Coltrane,
Nirvana,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magma,
Drexciya,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis,
Minor Threat,
Mars,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Derrick Morgan,
Scientists,
OOIOO,
Dark Day,
Lyres,
Essential Logic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jacques Brel,
Jeru the Damaja,
Siglo XX,
Vainqueur,
UT,
Faraquet,
Joyce Sims,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Colin Newman,
Con Funk Shun,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hashim,
Ohio Players,
The Count Five,
Scratch Acid,
Cluster,
The Blackbyrds,
Camouflage,
Urselle,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lucky Dragons,
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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.