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 Brazil and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Amon Düül II to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radio Birdman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Funky Four + One,
Nick Fraelich,
Icehouse,
Funkadelic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boz Scaggs,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Drive Like Jehu,
EPMD,
The Standells,
Mark Hollis,
Man Parrish,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Niagra,
Cameo,
Jacob Miller,
The Dirtbombs,
DNA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q and Not U,
The Residents,
The Litter,
The Fortunes,
Tom Boy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Star Department,
Zapp,
Jandek,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Schoolly D,
Dark Day,
Tears for Fears,
The Buckinghams,
Don Cherry,
Unrelated Segments,
The Music Machine,
Frankie Knuckles,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bang On A Can,
The Fire Engines,
The Mummies,
Porter Ricks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tomorrow,
The Martian,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gabor Szabo,
Erykah Badu,
Yaz,
David Axelrod,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed,
La Düsseldorf,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.