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 Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rotary Connection to the rap 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Sixth Finger,
Skaos,
Monolake,
Brand Nubian,
New York Dolls,
Amazonics,
Interpol,
Arthur Verocai,
Marmalade,
DJ Sneak,
John Foxx,
In Retrospect,
Joensuu 1685,
Mad Mike,
The Wake,
AZ,
Lungfish,
The Moody Blues,
Quando Quango,
L. Decosne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Byron Stingily,
Kas Product,
Reuben Wilson,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fugs,
June Days,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sun City Girls,
Skriet,
Suburban Knight,
Rotary Connection,
Scion,
Graham Central Station,
Swans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Slick Rick,
Shoche,
Ronan,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
Bill Wells,
Infiniti,
JFA,
Angry Samoans,
Flipper,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
ABC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Grass Roots,
Von Mondo,
Sam Rivers,
The Music Machine,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Carl Craig,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bang On A Can,
Tomorrow,
Delta 5,
Television,
Oblivians,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.