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 Kenya and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
K-Klass,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slave,
The Gap Band,
10cc,
The Evens,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
T. Rex,
Scratch Acid,
Mandrill,
Pantaleimon,
MC5,
Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Au Pairs,
D'Angelo,
Sex Pistols,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Dolphy,
Gichy Dan,
The Birthday Party,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Bananas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soft Machine,
R.M.O.,
Royal Trux,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
LL Cool J,
Alice Coltrane,
Moby Grape,
Warsaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Zapp,
Fugazi,
Rufus Thomas,
Deadbeat,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
Rod Modell,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
Buzzcocks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Todd Rundgren,
Sällskapet,
Lou Christie,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Parry Music,
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.