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 Nicaragua and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
The Invisible,
Fela Kuti,
Altered Images,
Marc Almond,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crash Course in Science,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Copeland,
The Wake,
The Trojans,
Japan,
Organ,
Rod Modell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Negative Approach,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jandek,
Stetsasonic,
Pole,
The Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Saints,
Robert Wyatt,
Minny Pops,
Swell Maps,
Royal Trux,
June of 44,
Stockholm Monsters,
David Axelrod,
Ultravox,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nas,
Cecil Taylor,
L. Decosne,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Dolphy,
Sister Nancy,
The Gories,
Model 500,
Marmalade,
Althea and Donna,
Soft Machine,
Maurizio,
Henry Cow,
B.T. Express,
Skaos,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Television Personalities,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.