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 Bhutan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 Barclay James Harvest to the grime 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Patti Smith,
Lungfish,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Model 500,
Cluster,
Yaz,
Franke,
Outsiders,
Ponytail,
Girls At Our Best!,
Toni Rubio,
Magma,
Groovy Waters,
Nirvana,
Quando Quango,
Animal Collective,
MC5,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Coltrane,
Liliput,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül II,
U.S. Maple,
Jacob Miller,
The Smoke,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stereo Dub,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Christie,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Modern Lovers,
Moby Grape,
Chrome,
Janne Schatter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pussy Galore,
The Seeds,
The Monochrome Set,
Joe Smooth,
the Germs,
Sugar Minott,
Public Enemy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heaven 17,
Metal Thangz,
David McCallum,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Saints,
Cecil Taylor,
Barbara Tucker,
Motorama,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barrington Levy,
Fad Gadget,
Dark Day,
Delta 5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.