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 Armenia and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Wire to the grunge 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Ice-T,
Kas Product,
Alphaville,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grey Daturas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mad Mike,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
Subhumans,
The Litter,
The American Breed,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jandek,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amazonics,
Rekid,
Trumans Water,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Glenn Branca,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Index,
Hoover,
Guru Guru,
Procol Harum,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ituana,
Roy Ayers,
Monolake,
Scan 7,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Clarke,
Khruangbin,
Arthur Verocai,
Sonny Sharrock,
MDC,
The Offenders,
Talk Talk,
Black Moon,
Eve St. Jones,
Davy DMX,
Eden Ahbez,
Young Marble Giants,
Sound Behaviour,
Terry Callier,
MC5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
PIL,
Joe Smooth,
K-Klass,
Bad Manners,
Con Funk Shun,
Basic Channel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.