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 Mexico and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Sun City Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terry Callier,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eric Dolphy,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cowsills,
Sex Pistols,
Fluxion,
Janne Schatter,
Jandek,
Byron Stingily,
Von Mondo,
Swell Maps,
EPMD,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Reagan Youth,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Scrapy,
Hoover,
Lightning Bolt,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sällskapet,
Toni Rubio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
Trumans Water,
Aswad,
Davy DMX,
The Human League,
Amon Düül,
Whodini,
The Buckinghams,
Ronnie Foster,
Youth Brigade,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Christie,
The Gun Club,
Nick Fraelich,
Althea and Donna,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Juan Atkins,
Rekid,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Patti Smith,
Grey Daturas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harry Pussy,
Al Stewart,
The Gap Band,
Tom Boy,
Derrick May,
The Mummies,
Bronski Beat,
Todd Terry,
Sister Nancy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.