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 Afghanistan and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Todd Rundgren to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Circle Jerks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Model 500,
Sun City Girls,
Cabaret Voltaire,
a-ha,
AZ,
The Doors,
Andrew Hill,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Smoke,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Khruangbin,
Agitation Free,
A Certain Ratio,
Royal Trux,
kango's stein massive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
Sight & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minnie Riperton,
Bootsy Collins,
The Last Poets,
The Moody Blues,
The Remains,
Magazine,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Slits,
DNA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
D'Angelo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cybotron,
Rod Modell,
Vainqueur,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
The Grass Roots,
Severed Heads,
Barbara Tucker,
Symarip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
Pulsallama,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.