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 Comoros and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gil Scott Heron to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Schoolly D,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
UT,
The Moleskins,
L. Decosne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris Corsano,
Faust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Almond,
Model 500,
Radio Birdman,
Anakelly,
In Retrospect,
Joyce Sims,
Gastr Del Sol,
F. McDonald,
The Buckinghams,
Clear Light,
Kenny Larkin,
T.S.O.L.,
Oblivians,
Moebius,
The Happenings,
Sonic Youth,
Ponytail,
Yaz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hoover,
Roy Ayers,
Suburban Knight,
Blake Baxter,
The Busters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crooked Eye,
The Martian,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nik Kershaw,
The Names,
Liliput,
Lakeside,
Funkadelic,
The Electric Prunes,
Swans,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Outsiders,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Niagra,
Archie Shepp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
The Neon Judgement,
Brothers Johnson,
Oneida,
Man Parrish,
The Techniques,
Alice Coltrane,
Khruangbin,
Mark Hollis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.