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 Comoros and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Fluxion to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Skatalites,
E-Dancer,
Terrestrial Tones,
Susan Cadogan,
Idris Muhammad,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Technova,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Five Americans,
Cecil Taylor,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Niagra,
Minnie Riperton,
Bad Manners,
The Trojans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers,
Half Japanese,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
The Toasters,
the Slits,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Kinks,
The Raincoats,
Organ,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Bobby Sherman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Birthday Party,
UT,
Jeru the Damaja,
FM Einheit,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Henry Cow,
Bizarre Inc.,
Charles Mingus,
Loose Ends,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Albert Ayler,
Terry Callier,
Harmonia,
Black Sheep,
Bobby Womack,
Saccharine Trust,
Dave Gahan,
Nirvana,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Lalann,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.