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 Sudan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 CMW to the rock 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Finger,
Talk Talk,
Ronnie Foster,
Albert Ayler,
World's Most,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jeff Mills,
Sandy B,
Sam Rivers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The J.B.'s,
Bill Wells,
Eric B and Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Slick Rick,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Cure,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Anthony Braxton,
The Moleskins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Youth Brigade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sonic Youth,
John Foxx,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dead Boys,
Eurythmics,
The Cramps,
Fluxion,
Rod Modell,
FM Einheit,
Letta Mbulu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
One Last Wish,
The Slackers,
Black Sheep,
Shuggie Otis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Panda Bear,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Hasil Adkins,
U.S. Maple,
Buzzcocks,
Radio Birdman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lungfish,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.