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 Latvia and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Robert Palmer 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 Rakim to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All The Fall 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Zeros,
Sällskapet,
Cymande,
DJ Style,
Jacob Miller,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Walker Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
OOIOO,
June Days,
The Associates,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
The Stooges,
Delta 5,
CMW,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Magazine,
Clear Light,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roxy Music,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ultimate Spinach,
Frankie Knuckles,
Porter Ricks,
Livin' Joy,
The Fire Engines,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skriet,
The Doobie Brothers,
T. Rex,
Flash Fearless,
Wire,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fugs,
The Doors,
Carl Craig,
Hoover,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Young Marble Giants,
Rod Modell,
Tomorrow,
The Neon Judgement,
MDC,
Section 25,
Eddi Front,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fat Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
The Electric Prunes,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.