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 Finland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Teasers,
Wolf Eyes,
The Velvet Underground,
Graham Central Station,
Gil Scott Heron,
Animal Collective,
Barbara Tucker,
Amon Düül,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The United States of America,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
The Zeros,
Sound Behaviour,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Wyatt,
The Knickerbockers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Inner City,
World's Most,
Motorama,
Warsaw,
One Last Wish,
The Skatalites,
Von Mondo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
Fugazi,
The Tremeloes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Model 500,
Colin Newman,
Derrick May,
R.M.O.,
The Fire Engines,
Hasil Adkins,
In Retrospect,
New Age Steppers,
Joe Finger,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Monochrome Set,
Nils Olav,
Marshall Jefferson,
Half Japanese,
Shoche,
Surgeon,
The Slackers,
Skaos,
Faust,
FM Einheit,
Rakim,
Pylon,
Tomorrow,
This Heat,
Drive Like Jehu,
Darondo,
Aswad,
Cymande,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Connie Case,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mark Hollis,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.