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 Egypt and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Brothers Johnson 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Peter and Kerry,
The Tremeloes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joensuu 1685,
Cal Tjader,
Gastr Del Sol,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Accadde A,
Charles Mingus,
Oneida,
China Crisis,
Q and Not U,
Deadbeat,
Negative Approach,
Jacob Miller,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joe Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sonic Youth,
Index,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Panda Bear,
Mandrill,
Aaron Thompson,
The Star Department,
Jawbox,
MC5,
Arthur Verocai,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rotary Connection,
48th St. Collective,
Nico,
Don Cherry,
Juan Atkins,
The Golliwogs,
Alice Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Bauhaus,
Eve St. Jones,
Roxette,
John Cale,
the Bar-Kays,
D'Angelo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Banda Bassotti,
New Order,
Japan,
Skaos,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.