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 Montenegro and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kaleidoscope to the rap 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Von Mondo,
The Barracudas,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Saints,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Raincoats,
Nils Olav,
Susan Cadogan,
One Last Wish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Byrd,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Leaves,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roy Ayers,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donald Byrd,
Adolescents,
Delta 5,
The Skatalites,
Anthony Braxton,
KRS-One,
Subhumans,
a-ha,
Arcadia,
Unwound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ralphi Rosario,
Essential Logic,
Danielle Patucci,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Techniques,
Electric Prunes,
Massinfluence,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Five Americans,
Dave Gahan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terry Callier,
Panda Bear,
Barry Ungar,
The Dave Clark Five,
Motorama,
The Fortunes,
The Cowsills,
Supertramp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boz Scaggs,
Urselle,
Quantec,
Popol Vuh,
Lakeside,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.