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 Tajikistan and from Bologna.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Don Cherry to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Derrick May,
Skarface,
Bootsy Collins,
Tim Buckley,
The Dead C,
Althea and Donna,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-Ray Spex,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Gregory Isaacs,
Japan,
Khruangbin,
Crime,
Cybotron,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Associates,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
The Skatalites,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pere Ubu,
Joy Division,
Y Pants,
Slave,
One Last Wish,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Invisible,
Sonic Youth,
Tommy Roe,
Qualms,
Fad Gadget,
Aloha Tigers,
Tom Boy,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sight & Sound,
Ohio Players,
kango's stein massive,
Donny Hathaway,
Rhythm & Sound,
Main Source,
Camouflage,
Goldenarms,
Connie Case,
Bill Wells,
Minny Pops,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra,
Tres Demented,
Peter and Kerry,
Brothers Johnson,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.