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 Czech Republic and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 the Association to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Swans,
Alton Ellis,
The Electric Prunes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deakin,
Black Moon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Monks,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
Rufus Thomas,
The Offenders,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Schoolly D,
Warsaw,
The Skatalites,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
Black Sheep,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amazonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
MDC,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Zapp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
One Last Wish,
Lower 48,
Minnie Riperton,
The Residents,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Soft Cell,
Joensuu 1685,
World's Most,
Procol Harum,
Echospace,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
Juan Atkins,
Goldenarms,
Soft Machine,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter and Kerry,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Names,
the Bar-Kays,
Little Man,
The Doobie Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.