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 France and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Nik Kershaw to the techno 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Star Department,
Minutemen,
The Techniques,
Al Stewart,
AZ,
Von Mondo,
Hoover,
Agitation Free,
Roxy Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Lydon,
Moss Icon,
The Beau Brummels,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Archie Shepp,
Panda Bear,
Section 25,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerrie Biddell,
EPMD,
Jesper Dahlback,
B.T. Express,
Moebius,
Make Up,
Ultra Naté,
Lindisfarne,
Accadde A,
Sam Rivers,
Bill Wells,
Main Source,
Kas Product,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sight & Sound,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Cowsills,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
Alton Ellis,
Au Pairs,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacob Miller,
the Swans,
The Moleskins,
Jerry's Kids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Don Cherry,
Guru Guru,
Electric Light Orchestra,
cv313,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Mummies,
Youth Brigade,
the Sonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Adolescents,
Scratch Acid,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.