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 Jordan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Minutemen to the electroclash 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Altered Images,
Freddie Wadling,
Pagans,
the Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gabor Szabo,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Green,
Harpers Bizarre,
Y Pants,
James White and The Blacks,
Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cluster,
Soul II Soul,
Excepter,
Jacob Miller,
Max Romeo,
The Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonic Youth,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Basic Channel,
Juan Atkins,
The United States of America,
Main Source,
John Holt,
Fat Boys,
Desert Stars,
Sister Nancy,
Bang On A Can,
Soulsonic Force,
Country Teasers,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül,
Sam Rivers,
Dorothy Ashby,
MC5,
Anthony Braxton,
The Stooges,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Minnie Riperton,
Harry Pussy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Shoche,
Mantronix,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Neil Young,
Alison Limerick,
Magma,
Peter & Gordon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fela Kuti,
ABBA,
Nirvana,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.