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 Serbia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Guru Guru,
Gabor Szabo,
Roy Ayers,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
Roger Hodgson,
Oblivians,
La Düsseldorf,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gichy Dan,
the Normal,
Deakin,
Niagra,
Flipper,
Lalann,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gun Club,
Newcleus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The New Christs,
Flash Fearless,
Ponytail,
The Smoke,
Black Pus,
Joyce Sims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
Popol Vuh,
Max Romeo,
Thompson Twins,
Sam Rivers,
Circle Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mad Mike,
Schoolly D,
Anakelly,
The Velvet Underground,
Eden Ahbez,
Mission of Burma,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Star Department,
Depeche Mode,
Aswad,
Talk Talk,
Sound Behaviour,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Searchers,
Skarface,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erasure,
Boz Scaggs,
Archie Shepp,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
These Immortal Souls,
Soft Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Henry Cow,
Graham Central Station,
Underground Resistance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.