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 Brazil 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Maleditus Sound to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Jerry's Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Christie,
The Martian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Goldenarms,
Yaz,
Aural Exciters,
Eurythmics,
The Angels of Light,
Donny Hathaway,
Gong,
Trumans Water,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
The Blackbyrds,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joey Negro,
Clear Light,
Slave,
Whodini,
Letta Mbulu,
The Selecter,
Rosa Yemen,
Tommy Roe,
JFA,
Groovy Waters,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra,
Rotary Connection,
John Coltrane,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Monolake,
Liliput,
Loose Ends,
The Buckinghams,
The Gories,
Faraquet,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Zeros,
The Victims,
Erasure,
David Bowie,
Oneida,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sonic Youth,
Tres Demented,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
The Music Machine,
Dual Sessions,
The Blues Magoos,
Zero Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.