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 Colombia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Cecil Taylor to the techno 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Janne Schatter,
Crispy Ambulance,
K-Klass,
Cybotron,
cv313,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Residents,
Mark Hollis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Skatalites,
Yusef Lateef,
Ohio Players,
Minor Threat,
Barrington Levy,
Young Marble Giants,
Sixth Finger,
Harmonia,
Easy Going,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roy Ayers,
the Swans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mission of Burma,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Davy DMX,
The Durutti Column,
Severed Heads,
Dark Day,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Görl,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Au Pairs,
Patti Smith,
10cc,
Jeru the Damaja,
Unwound,
Bluetip,
Infiniti,
Country Teasers,
The Moody Blues,
DJ Style,
Lightning Bolt,
Tommy Roe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Heaven 17,
David McCallum,
Leonard Cohen,
Ponytail,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fuzztones,
Sun City Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Panda Bear,
Mandrill,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Danielle Patucci,
Stiv Bators,
Pussy Galore,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.