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 Zambia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Amon Düül II to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Chris Corsano,
Buzzcocks,
Erykah Badu,
The Sound,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ultra Naté,
Mantronix,
The United States of America,
Make Up,
Kayak,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Fraelich,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joe Smooth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yazoo,
Brass Construction,
Slick Rick,
The Red Krayola,
Maurizio,
Albert Ayler,
Livin' Joy,
Marvin Gaye,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
Symarip,
Barry Ungar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bizarre Inc.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Copeland,
Cluster,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scratch Acid,
Rotary Connection,
Kenny Larkin,
Pylon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bad Manners,
The Music Machine,
Suburban Knight,
Minnie Riperton,
Moby Grape,
Isaac Hayes,
Brick,
Mary Jane Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Anthony Braxton,
Ken Boothe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Royal Trux,
Easy Going,
Yellowson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joensuu 1685,
Audionom,
Von Mondo,
The Happenings,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.