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 Andorra and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lalann to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Groovy Waters,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Supertramp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joey Negro,
Susan Cadogan,
Glenn Branca,
Ash Ra Tempel,
China Crisis,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
MDC,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fugs,
Piero Umiliani,
Amon Düül,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Axelrod,
Barrington Levy,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
Deadbeat,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott Heron,
Brick,
Ornette Coleman,
Peter & Gordon,
Siglo XX,
Eric Copeland,
La Düsseldorf,
Monolake,
Outsiders,
Stiv Bators,
The Golliwogs,
Chrome,
Junior Murvin,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fire Engines,
The Smoke,
Prince Buster,
Howard Jones,
Radiohead,
Dennis Brown,
Oblivians,
Panda Bear,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grey Daturas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Toasters,
The Standells,
Carl Craig,
Harry Pussy,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.