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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Roxette to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Guru Guru,
Gang Starr,
Eric Copeland,
Agitation Free,
John Cale,
Absolute Body Control,
Ice-T,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Whodini,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
John Coltrane,
Brick,
Deakin,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gun Club,
Cecil Taylor,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
K-Klass,
David Axelrod,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Doobie Brothers,
DJ Sneak,
Brass Construction,
Accadde A,
The Standells,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wire,
Johnny Clarke,
Joey Negro,
Angry Samoans,
Loose Ends,
Pere Ubu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ossler,
The Monochrome Set,
The Offenders,
Byron Stingily,
DNA,
Reuben Wilson,
Kerri Chandler,
Faraquet,
The Pop Group,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Fania All-Stars,
Q and Not U,
Drexciya,
Ponytail,
The Fugs,
Judy Mowatt,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.