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 Syria and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lyres to the grunge 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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rakim,
Malaria!,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Vogues,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed,
Nas,
Blake Baxter,
The Evens,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Real Kids,
Cecil Taylor,
Minutemen,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Nirvana,
Pantaleimon,
Hardrive,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Isaac Hayes,
Wire,
The Slackers,
Idris Muhammad,
Robert Wyatt,
Fear,
Sound Behaviour,
Kaleidoscope,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
OOIOO,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boogie Down Productions,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Howard Jones,
Ludus,
Gong,
Neil Young,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Womack,
Flamin' Groovies,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
John Coltrane,
The Kinks,
Gregory Isaacs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
JFA,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Livin' Joy,
Marvin Gaye,
The Selecter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stiv Bators,
World's Most,
Jandek,
Throbbing Gristle,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.