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 Spain and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Guru Guru,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pylon,
Alice Coltrane,
Main Source,
Brick,
Joyce Sims,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bluetip,
The Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Arthur Verocai,
The Slits,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Curtis Mayfield,
PIL,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Skarface,
Reuben Wilson,
Henry Cow,
The Young Rascals,
Japan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bad Manners,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Deepchord,
Pole,
Popol Vuh,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Visage,
Outsiders,
Television,
Archie Shepp,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Moody Blues,
Youth Brigade,
The Zeros,
Tommy Roe,
The Raincoats,
Anakelly,
The Leaves,
Isaac Hayes,
Tears for Fears,
Cluster,
Sight & Sound,
R.M.O.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lebanon Hanover,
Grandmaster Flash,
Goldenarms,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.