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 Mauritania and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the jazz 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
The Remains,
Mars,
Scion,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Byron Stingily,
The New Christs,
Model 500,
Fat Boys,
Hardrive,
Graham Central Station,
Hot Snakes,
One Last Wish,
Jimmy McGriff,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sun City Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Dawn Penn,
Archie Shepp,
Bluetip,
Robert Wyatt,
The Standells,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultra Naté,
The Saints,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pussy Galore,
Kenny Larkin,
The Pop Group,
Dennis Brown,
Lucky Dragons,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Count Five,
ABC,
David McCallum,
Brass Construction,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sandy B,
Urselle,
Bush Tetras,
The Dead C,
Iggy Pop,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rekid,
Skriet,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Trumans Water,
Vainqueur,
Flipper,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Glambeats Corp.,
PIL,
Marvin Gaye,
MC5,
Michelle Simonal,
Alison Limerick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.