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 Congo and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 Sun Ra to the funk 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Lightning Bolt,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wire,
Mantronix,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Coltrane,
The Fall,
Alphaville,
Parry Music,
Cluster,
The Young Rascals,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Hill,
The Monks,
Circle Jerks,
Technova,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pet Shop Boys,
a-ha,
Minutemen,
Toni Rubio,
Pantytec,
Bad Manners,
Stetsasonic,
Guru Guru,
Infiniti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rosa Yemen,
The Leaves,
Connie Case,
Accadde A,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
The Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Yazoo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skarface,
Eric B and Rakim,
Maleditus Sound,
Jacques Brel,
Minnie Riperton,
Sister Nancy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
DJ Sneak,
MC5,
cv313,
The Fuzztones,
The Doobie Brothers,
Faust,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.