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 Yemen and from Taipei.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bad Manners to the jazz 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Rotary Connection,
The Evens,
La Düsseldorf,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Accadde A,
The Doors,
Black Moon,
Peter & Gordon,
Iggy Pop,
Goldenarms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
Danielle Patucci,
Stereo Dub,
The Slackers,
Pantaleimon,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Associates,
Lungfish,
This Heat,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lebanon Hanover,
The New Christs,
Roy Ayers,
Minor Threat,
Smog,
Soul II Soul,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thee Headcoats,
The Last Poets,
Maurizio,
Eden Ahbez,
Bang On A Can,
Harry Pussy,
The Zeros,
Crispian St. Peters,
Aloha Tigers,
Fear,
Deadbeat,
Stiv Bators,
Lalann,
Al Stewart,
Kaleidoscope,
the Bar-Kays,
The Raincoats,
Anakelly,
Scan 7,
Blake Baxter,
X-102,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Smiths,
Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kevin Saunderson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.