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 Lebanon and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 David Axelrod to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Juan Atkins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Trumans Water,
Cluster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Associates,
Los Fastidios,
The Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Tom Boy,
The Young Rascals,
Sound Behaviour,
Bush Tetras,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crash Course in Science,
Blancmange,
Darondo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Searchers,
Vladislav Delay,
Groovy Waters,
Ralphi Rosario,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Mark Hollis,
Bootsy Collins,
Kayak,
Skriet,
Angry Samoans,
Eden Ahbez,
The Mojo Men,
Ice-T,
Section 25,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fall,
Lakeside,
The Durutti Column,
U.S. Maple,
The Fugs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Nik Kershaw,
Bob Dylan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Outsiders,
Camouflage,
Dark Day,
The Evens,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Davy DMX,
The Neon Judgement,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth,
Neil Young,
Barrington Levy,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.