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 Syria and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Babytalk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fortunes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Stiv Bators,
The Litter,
the Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Glambeats Corp.,
Girls At Our Best!,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aloha Tigers,
Joensuu 1685,
The Saints,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moebius,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Bar-Kays,
The Electric Prunes,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kaleidoscope,
Amazonics,
Nas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Unrelated Segments,
Depeche Mode,
New York Dolls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Adolescents,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Magazine,
Shoche,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Osbourne,
Quadrant,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Machine,
PIL,
Spoonie Gee,
Zapp,
The Selecter,
Neil Young,
Icehouse,
the Germs,
Bush Tetras,
Ossler,
Bobby Womack,
Sparks,
Monolake,
Loose Ends,
Ken Boothe,
Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
The Young Rascals,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.