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 Bahamas and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro 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 Junior Murvin to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Little Man,
Popol Vuh,
Alton Ellis,
Country Teasers,
The Monochrome Set,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Zapp,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The J.B.'s,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
cv313,
Iggy Pop,
The Buckinghams,
Erykah Badu,
Fear,
Janne Schatter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Schoolly D,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Pretty Things,
Glenn Branca,
Stockholm Monsters,
Massinfluence,
Lightning Bolt,
Hardrive,
Kayak,
Silicon Teens,
Mark Hollis,
Sun Ra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Parry Music,
Moebius,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Germs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
H. Thieme,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Byrd,
Mantronix,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
Half Japanese,
Ultra Naté,
KRS-One,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mummies,
Cluster,
Skriet,
Sparks,
The Litter,
Soulsonic Force,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Black Bananas,
The Divine Comedy,
The Smoke,
Danielle Patucci,
Panda Bear,
Sam Rivers,
The Dead C,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.