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 Ireland and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the techno 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Roxette,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
Cecil Taylor,
Amon Düül II,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Laurel Aitken,
John Holt,
The Remains,
Malaria!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Five Americans,
Lightning Bolt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camberwell Now,
Sexual Harrassment,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Intrusion,
Jandek,
Bobby Sherman,
Los Fastidios,
Slick Rick,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Slackers,
Guru Guru,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
48th St. Collective,
Pierre Henry,
Mo-Dettes,
Accadde A,
The Birthday Party,
The Sonics,
Mark Hollis,
Aloha Tigers,
Icehouse,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erykah Badu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Visage,
Patti Smith,
The Angels of Light,
Lalann,
Schoolly D,
K-Klass,
Ronan,
Al Stewart,
Morten Harket,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gabor Szabo,
The Knickerbockers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.