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 United States and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Loose Ends to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Foxx,
Man Eating Sloth,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Pretty Things,
ABC,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Saccharine Trust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Zeros,
Donald Byrd,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Reuben Wilson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
Roxy Music,
Toni Rubio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Siglo XX,
Chris Corsano,
8 Eyed Spy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brass Construction,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lyres,
Yellowson,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick Morgan,
Freddie Wadling,
Shuggie Otis,
Hot Snakes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jandek,
The Blues Magoos,
Dark Day,
Drive Like Jehu,
Easy Going,
Black Pus,
Blancmange,
Half Japanese,
Ronan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fela Kuti,
Sparks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Janne Schatter,
Soft Machine,
The Move,
X-102,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.