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 Malaysia and from Lagos.
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 Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Faraquet 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
cv313,
Tres Demented,
Young Marble Giants,
Severed Heads,
The Dead C,
Todd Rundgren,
The Offenders,
Average White Band,
Whodini,
Quantec,
Dennis Brown,
Slave,
Bob Dylan,
Yellowson,
Iggy Pop,
Y Pants,
The Gap Band,
Maurizio,
Banda Bassotti,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Au Pairs,
Piero Umiliani,
Pagans,
Essential Logic,
Black Flag,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Technova,
Shoche,
Interpol,
Mission of Burma,
The United States of America,
Marmalade,
Alice Coltrane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delta 5,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Magazine,
The Doors,
Todd Terry,
Magma,
Second Layer,
Eden Ahbez,
Marvin Gaye,
New York Dolls,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Procol Harum,
Lakeside,
New Age Steppers,
Connie Case,
Gabor Szabo,
World's Most,
Bobby Womack,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Fania All-Stars,
Model 500,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.