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 Oman and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Scratch Acid to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Pus,
The Names,
Fela Kuti,
Matthew Halsall,
Faraquet,
Technova,
Boz Scaggs,
Crash Course in Science,
Mars,
The Offenders,
Jeru the Damaja,
The United States of America,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Sneak,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lucky Dragons,
LL Cool J,
UT,
Kerri Chandler,
Tubeway Army,
Faust,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pere Ubu,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harmonia,
Neil Young,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moby Grape,
R.M.O.,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare,
Absolute Body Control,
The Victims,
The Durutti Column,
Eric Copeland,
Stockholm Monsters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Supertramp,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bush Tetras,
Jerry Gold Smith,
OOIOO,
Quando Quango,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Toni Rubio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Buckinghams,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül,
Robert Wyatt,
Donny Hathaway,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.