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 Israel and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Hasil Adkins to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Human League,
Susan Cadogan,
Sound Behaviour,
Malaria!,
Bauhaus,
Ten City,
Model 500,
John Cale,
Shuggie Otis,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
Panda Bear,
Sandy B,
Index,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radio Birdman,
Andrew Hill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Smoke,
Eyeless In Gaza,
EPMD,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rosa Yemen,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
Juan Atkins,
the Germs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Birthday Party,
Joensuu 1685,
Talk Talk,
Donny Hathaway,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swell Maps,
Cheater Slicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kurtis Blow,
Spoonie Gee,
Saccharine Trust,
the Normal,
Sugar Minott,
Inner City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soulsonic Force,
Morten Harket,
This Heat,
Neu!,
Television Personalities,
The Sound,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thompson Twins,
Thee Headcoats,
MDC,
Scott Walker,
The Blues Magoos,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Letta Mbulu,
Whodini,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.