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 Kuwait and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Panda Bear to the funk 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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Kayak,
Shuggie Otis,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soft Machine,
Sight & Sound,
Jawbox,
Graham Central Station,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Archie Shepp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fluxion,
The Index,
X-102,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Interpol,
Blake Baxter,
John Cale,
Pantytec,
Curtis Mayfield,
Schoolly D,
Arthur Verocai,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Bar-Kays,
Amon Düül II,
Alton Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
Don Cherry,
The Leaves,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marshall Jefferson,
8 Eyed Spy,
The United States of America,
The Misunderstood,
The Kinks,
The American Breed,
Skaos,
Eli Mardock,
Anthony Braxton,
Gastr Del Sol,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sällskapet,
cv313,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Parry Music,
Marvin Gaye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cymande,
Skriet,
Pagans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barrington Levy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Robert Wyatt,
Chrome,
The Walker Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
D'Angelo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.