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 Mongolia and from Seoul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Arcadia to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
DJ Style,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scratch Acid,
Ossler,
These Immortal Souls,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
Accadde A,
Clear Light,
Man Eating Sloth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Sugar Minott,
Andrew Hill,
Newcleus,
Depeche Mode,
Trumans Water,
Malaria!,
Bootsy Collins,
The Walker Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terry Callier,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Amon Düül II,
Ponytail,
Sällskapet,
Talk Talk,
Soft Machine,
Tomorrow,
Marvin Gaye,
Godley & Creme,
Organ,
Deakin,
Harry Pussy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Young Rascals,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alton Ellis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Arab on Radar,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
Y Pants,
Negative Approach,
Warren Ellis,
Camberwell Now,
cv313,
Lightning Bolt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quando Quango,
Metal Thangz,
Anthony Braxton,
E-Dancer,
The Fuzztones,
The Pretty Things,
Joe Smooth,
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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.