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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
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 Manila and Spokane.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Henry Cow to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Josef K,
Radiohead,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mars,
Liliput,
Junior Murvin,
Groovy Waters,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Normal,
James White and The Blacks,
Donald Byrd,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dead C,
Pharoah Sanders,
Underground Resistance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joey Negro,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Peter and Kerry,
LL Cool J,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mandrill,
Niagra,
Sparks,
X-Ray Spex,
Davy DMX,
Buzzcocks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stereo Dub,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barrington Levy,
Cheater Slicks,
Oblivians,
Crime,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Freddie Wadling,
Ralphi Rosario,
Andrew Hill,
Roger Hodgson,
Anthony Braxton,
The Saints,
Angry Samoans,
Livin' Joy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Wake,
Glenn Branca,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kaleidoscope,
Funky Four + One,
Chris & Cosey,
Tubeway Army,
Hoover,
Boredoms,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fortunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.