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 Colombia and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 New Age Steppers to the techno 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cluster,
Silicon Teens,
Cameo,
Ten City,
The Fuzztones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Al Stewart,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Connie Case,
Sixth Finger,
the Bar-Kays,
The Neon Judgement,
Slave,
Sonic Youth,
Accadde A,
Arab on Radar,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mad Mike,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boz Scaggs,
Trumans Water,
Sister Nancy,
the Association,
Dennis Brown,
T. Rex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sonny Sharrock,
Johnny Clarke,
Big Daddy Kane,
Freddie Wadling,
Delta 5,
Darondo,
Rod Modell,
Bad Manners,
Lower 48,
The Fugs,
the Slits,
Scrapy,
Isaac Hayes,
Barbara Tucker,
The Invisible,
Prince Buster,
Index,
Joe Finger,
Boredoms,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pulsallama,
Stiv Bators,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Sonics,
Slick Rick,
Anthony Braxton,
Eurythmics,
Pylon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deakin,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.