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 Indonesia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harpers Bizarre 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aural Exciters,
Underground Resistance,
Fatback Band,
KRS-One,
Nico,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q and Not U,
Model 500,
Boredoms,
Average White Band,
Country Teasers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ponytail,
Malaria!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Flag,
Matthew Bourne,
Isaac Hayes,
Arthur Verocai,
Pere Ubu,
H. Thieme,
Tubeway Army,
Pierre Henry,
Davy DMX,
The Zeros,
Parry Music,
Wally Richardson,
Altered Images,
Scan 7,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warsaw,
John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sugar Minott,
The Names,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Techniques,
Loose Ends,
Thompson Twins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Outsiders,
Amon Düül II,
Bill Wells,
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
L. Decosne,
In Retrospect,
the Germs,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
Crooked Eye,
The Moody Blues,
Lebanon Hanover,
OOIOO,
Audionom,
Lower 48,
The Sound,
Man Parrish,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.