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 Jordan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar 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 Doors to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
The Index,
The Blackbyrds,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang of Four,
Colin Newman,
Mo-Dettes,
Youth Brigade,
B.T. Express,
Nils Olav,
Second Layer,
Boredoms,
Slick Rick,
Altered Images,
The Blues Magoos,
Ituana,
Sonny Sharrock,
Basic Channel,
Roy Ayers,
PIL,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jandek,
Quando Quango,
The Gories,
Ultra Naté,
The Detroit Cobras,
Glenn Branca,
The Real Kids,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalann,
In Retrospect,
Freddie Wadling,
Crime,
Procol Harum,
Little Man,
Mr. Review,
the Normal,
The New Christs,
The Doors,
Bill Near,
Steve Hackett,
R.M.O.,
The Moody Blues,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
The Fuzztones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
The Happenings,
Hot Snakes,
Nas,
Pere Ubu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.