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 Paraguay and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Bush Tetras to the rap 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Seeds,
Susan Cadogan,
The Last Poets,
The Monochrome Set,
Camouflage,
Fugazi,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pulsallama,
Flamin' Groovies,
June Days,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Public Enemy,
AZ,
Aural Exciters,
Albert Ayler,
Qualms,
Letta Mbulu,
The Black Dice,
Cheater Slicks,
Gong,
Schoolly D,
Wally Richardson,
Lucky Dragons,
Bill Near,
Josef K,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Duran Duran,
In Retrospect,
Bad Manners,
The Star Department,
Mark Hollis,
Piero Umiliani,
Grey Daturas,
Technova,
Section 25,
Robert Hood,
A Certain Ratio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Harry Pussy,
Visage,
Aloha Tigers,
The Angels of Light,
Ponytail,
Popol Vuh,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soft Cell,
KRS-One,
Swans,
Roy Ayers,
The Techniques,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
EPMD,
Gang Starr,
Todd Terry,
Glambeats Corp.,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.