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 Haiti 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cameo to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Jandek,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
Marc Almond,
Panda Bear,
Massinfluence,
Aaron Thompson,
Sam Rivers,
Popol Vuh,
Cymande,
The Happenings,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Hashim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun Ra,
Juan Atkins,
The Count Five,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Tremeloes,
Procol Harum,
Reagan Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
Mr. Review,
10cc,
Lower 48,
Idris Muhammad,
Con Funk Shun,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
R.M.O.,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Womack,
Glenn Branca,
The Kinks,
The Index,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joyce Sims,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aswad,
Roxette,
AZ,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Flag,
Johnny Osbourne,
Average White Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joy Division,
Minny Pops,
Wasted Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marine Girls,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.