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 Libya and from Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Nico 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun City Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
The Techniques,
The Human League,
Technova,
The Monks,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Terry Callier,
Clear Light,
Gang Green,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Selecter,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
The Dead C,
Donald Byrd,
Yazoo,
Eric Dolphy,
FM Einheit,
the Normal,
Blake Baxter,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
Cybotron,
The Doors,
Frankie Knuckles,
Brick,
Kerri Chandler,
Supertramp,
Kaleidoscope,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Robert Wyatt,
New York Dolls,
Pulsallama,
Derrick May,
Derrick Morgan,
Inner City,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Gang Dance,
Archie Shepp,
Kas Product,
Icehouse,
Tom Boy,
Steve Hackett,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scion,
Michelle Simonal,
Fluxion,
Camouflage,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.