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 Nauru and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Amon Düül to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Marvin Gaye,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Avey Tare,
Ronnie Foster,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Motions,
The Kinks,
Vainqueur,
The Music Machine,
The Doors,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cowsills,
Aural Exciters,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Terry,
Rites of Spring,
Skarface,
Bobby Womack,
Gabor Szabo,
Patti Smith,
Chrome,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
Japan,
Gang Starr,
The Fuzztones,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Last Poets,
Al Stewart,
Alison Limerick,
The Toasters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jesper Dahlback,
Whodini,
Ultravox,
PIL,
Lucky Dragons,
Johnny Osbourne,
Section 25,
Tropical Tobacco,
Oblivians,
John Foxx,
Lee Hazlewood,
FM Einheit,
David Bowie,
R.M.O.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
Darondo,
Traffic Nightmare,
CMW,
Lou Reed,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Evens,
Morten Harket,
Alphaville,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.