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 Grenada and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Alton Ellis to the crunk 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Golliwogs,
Malaria!,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Piero Umiliani,
The Velvet Underground,
Cal Tjader,
Ken Boothe,
The Associates,
Steve Hackett,
Shuggie Otis,
Ituana,
Amon Düül II,
The Raincoats,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Unwound,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Trojans,
Aaron Thompson,
Bush Tetras,
Liliput,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marvin Gaye,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cymande,
Porter Ricks,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Thee Headcoats,
Crooked Eye,
Davy DMX,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Near,
DJ Style,
Soft Cell,
Grauzone,
The Gap Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Pus,
Lalann,
Rekid,
Bobby Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
The Happenings,
AZ,
Easy Going,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.