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 San Marino and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the jazz 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Delon & Dalcan,
Los Fastidios,
Absolute Body Control,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lindisfarne,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cal Tjader,
Wolf Eyes,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Terry,
Saccharine Trust,
Crime,
Trumans Water,
The Count Five,
Urselle,
X-Ray Spex,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Brass Construction,
Interpol,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aswad,
Ornette Coleman,
The Selecter,
the Germs,
Little Man,
Jacques Brel,
Jeru the Damaja,
Grauzone,
Cheater Slicks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wasted Youth,
The Grass Roots,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wire,
Outsiders,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
CMW,
Scratch Acid,
Alice Coltrane,
Hasil Adkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Josef K,
The Velvet Underground,
The Smoke,
The Fall,
Ronnie Foster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joensuu 1685,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Sherman,
Fatback Band,
Bill Near,
DNA,
Max Romeo,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.