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 Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moby Grape to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Icehouse,
Lalann,
Scientists,
David Axelrod,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Black Sheep,
The Gladiators,
Anakelly,
The Neon Judgement,
Gerry Rafferty,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Procol Harum,
T. Rex,
Morten Harket,
a-ha,
Lindisfarne,
Susan Cadogan,
Sugar Minott,
Joey Negro,
Sight & Sound,
Bluetip,
The Alarm Clocks,
Amon Düül,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Minor Threat,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Reed,
The Real Kids,
Circle Jerks,
Crash Course in Science,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cybotron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Subhumans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Half Japanese,
Bad Manners,
Donald Byrd,
Sparks,
Anthony Braxton,
Talk Talk,
The Golliwogs,
The Music Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Wake,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
10cc,
Erasure,
Newcleus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.