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 Guinea and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Seeds 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Q65,
Fatback Band,
Sällskapet,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul II Soul,
Gichy Dan,
The Fire Engines,
Pierre Henry,
The Wake,
Don Cherry,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Litter,
The Busters,
The Monochrome Set,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Sun City Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Count Five,
The Pretty Things,
AZ,
The Real Kids,
Bill Wells,
Sun Ra,
Ultravox,
Audionom,
Charles Mingus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
PIL,
E-Dancer,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aswad,
The Human League,
Arcadia,
Babytalk,
Dark Day,
The Skatalites,
Skarface,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skaos,
Mandrill,
Joensuu 1685,
K-Klass,
Glenn Branca,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Oblivians,
Kaleidoscope,
The Kinks,
Suicide,
Roger Hodgson,
Heaven 17,
R.M.O.,
Gong,
Warsaw,
Japan,
Fat Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Michelle Simonal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Beau Brummels,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.