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 Cape Verde and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Blancmange,
Skaos,
Robert Hood,
Fat Boys,
The Star Department,
Dennis Brown,
Matthew Bourne,
Fad Gadget,
Amon Düül,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
David Axelrod,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scion,
Gang of Four,
Tears for Fears,
The Evens,
The Remains,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Main Source,
The Kinks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Throbbing Gristle,
JFA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Little Man,
Siglo XX,
Qualms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Monks,
Clear Light,
Trumans Water,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cowsills,
Second Layer,
Boredoms,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jimmy McGriff,
Vladislav Delay,
The Black Dice,
X-102,
The Fall,
Ultravox,
Pantytec,
Joe Smooth,
Negative Approach,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kerri Chandler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fluxion,
Archie Shepp,
The Detroit Cobras,
Franke,
The Durutti Column,
Harmonia,
The Techniques,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.