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 Albania and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 The Pretty Things to the rock 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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Von Mondo,
Bill Near,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
Dual Sessions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Anakelly,
The Beau Brummels,
Gabor Szabo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Starr,
Erykah Badu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gong,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
F. McDonald,
Bill Wells,
Black Sheep,
Sandy B,
Easy Going,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rod Modell,
Soft Machine,
Aural Exciters,
Dead Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Albert Ayler,
The Slits,
a-ha,
Black Moon,
Harry Pussy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Warren Ellis,
Agent Orange,
The Smoke,
The Real Kids,
the Sonics,
Cheater Slicks,
Sun City Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Martian,
Shuggie Otis,
Bob Dylan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slackers,
Rites of Spring,
Slave,
Siglo XX,
Tim Buckley,
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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.