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 Uganda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Move to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Funkadelic,
Eden Ahbez,
Kas Product,
Anthony Braxton,
Albert Ayler,
The Residents,
Heaven 17,
Josef K,
Morten Harket,
Shuggie Otis,
The Birthday Party,
Public Enemy,
Lightning Bolt,
Minor Threat,
Lou Christie,
The Neon Judgement,
Max Romeo,
K-Klass,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Index,
Camberwell Now,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dead C,
Arab on Radar,
Magazine,
Nas,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Main Source,
Brothers Johnson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Buzzcocks,
Black Bananas,
Robert Görl,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter & Gordon,
June Days,
Barrington Levy,
Animal Collective,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dawn Penn,
The Leaves,
The Monochrome Set,
The Slackers,
Joy Division,
Cluster,
The Young Rascals,
Graham Central Station,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marcia Griffiths,
Al Stewart,
Cecil Taylor,
Sandy B,
10cc,
Gong,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.