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 Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Boz Scaggs to the grime 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All John Holt 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Tres Demented,
Circle Jerks,
Leonard Cohen,
The Kinks,
The Doors,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Holt,
Arcadia,
Trumans Water,
La Düsseldorf,
kango's stein massive,
The Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ronan,
Depeche Mode,
Newcleus,
Todd Rundgren,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pretty Things,
Q65,
The Evens,
Mantronix,
New York Dolls,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Judy Mowatt,
Funkadelic,
Icehouse,
Robert Wyatt,
Idris Muhammad,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
B.T. Express,
Monolake,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Fluxion,
The Residents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Slave,
The Doobie Brothers,
Johnny Clarke,
the Association,
Yusef Lateef,
Goldenarms,
The Pop Group,
Wolf Eyes,
The Five Americans,
Fad Gadget,
Surgeon,
Don Cherry,
Quadrant,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.