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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the 808 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 Ken Boothe to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül,
Mission of Burma,
Max Romeo,
Bootsy Collins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed,
Gabor Szabo,
The Smiths,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Zapp,
KRS-One,
The Dirtbombs,
The Tremeloes,
The Happenings,
Moss Icon,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
ABBA,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
R.M.O.,
Parry Music,
Make Up,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Grass Roots,
Tommy Roe,
Arthur Verocai,
Crash Course in Science,
Chris & Cosey,
Aloha Tigers,
UT,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Real Kids,
The Skatalites,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Erasure,
Arcadia,
Mr. Review,
Icehouse,
Don Cherry,
Scrapy,
Peter & Gordon,
Minor Threat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
D'Angelo,
David McCallum,
Pylon,
The Smoke,
Rosa Yemen,
K-Klass,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.