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 Taiwan and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ra Arkestra to the dance 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Juan Atkins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quando Quango,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson,
Soft Cell,
Letta Mbulu,
Flipper,
The Fugs,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nirvana,
Qualms,
Talk Talk,
Wings,
Tubeway Army,
Heaven 17,
Cybotron,
The Last Poets,
Maleditus Sound,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Index,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Babytalk,
Nico,
Television,
The Residents,
Adolescents,
The Martian,
The Cramps,
JFA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Evens,
Funky Four + One,
The New Christs,
The Raincoats,
Brass Construction,
Suicide,
World's Most,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kas Product,
The Tremeloes,
The Skatalites,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Sonics,
Curtis Mayfield,
U.S. Maple,
Desert Stars,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Index,
Lou Christie,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Drexciya,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Von Mondo,
Piero Umiliani,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.