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 Lebanon and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Brand Nubian to the punk 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Michelle Simonal,
Masters at Work,
Radiohead,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Neil Young,
Danielle Patucci,
Qualms,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sarah Menescal,
The Doobie Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
The Angels of Light,
Maurizio,
Jacques Brel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Moby Grape,
Sixth Finger,
Tommy Roe,
Soul II Soul,
Organ,
Unrelated Segments,
Eurythmics,
Flipper,
the Human League,
Television,
David McCallum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
The Velvet Underground,
Tomorrow,
The Saints,
New Age Steppers,
Marmalade,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Durutti Column,
The Grass Roots,
Aural Exciters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Association,
Brass Construction,
Glenn Branca,
The Toasters,
Fluxion,
Los Fastidios,
Shuggie Otis,
Isaac Hayes,
AZ,
Johnny Osbourne,
Donny Hathaway,
Lightning Bolt,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Seeds,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Bourne,
Talk Talk,
Pharoah Sanders,
Siglo XX,
The Gladiators,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.