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 Morocco and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Sun Ra to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
PIL,
Harmonia,
Quadrant,
David Axelrod,
Section 25,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Pretty Things,
FM Einheit,
Kayak,
kango's stein massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Zero Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Deepchord,
Crash Course in Science,
Dorothy Ashby,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Residents,
Bobby Sherman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mr. Review,
Boogie Down Productions,
Little Man,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Deadbeat,
World's Most,
Swell Maps,
Judy Mowatt,
Adolescents,
Sun City Girls,
Franke,
Bill Wells,
Arthur Verocai,
EPMD,
Soulsonic Force,
Agitation Free,
Depeche Mode,
Ice-T,
Wings,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DNA,
The Raincoats,
Funkadelic,
Roxy Music,
The Doors,
The Moody Blues,
Tommy Roe,
Scion,
Morten Harket,
The Blackbyrds,
Minor Threat,
Urselle,
Gastr Del Sol,
cv313,
Man Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.