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 United States and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Blossom Toes to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Steve Hackett,
Pantaleimon,
Lindisfarne,
Ultravox,
Deakin,
Rotary Connection,
Unrelated Segments,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
New York Dolls,
Black Flag,
Khruangbin,
Massinfluence,
The Velvet Underground,
Ornette Coleman,
Panda Bear,
Pantytec,
Shuggie Otis,
a-ha,
Howard Jones,
The Gories,
Supertramp,
Mars,
Connie Case,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
The Cowsills,
Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Japan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lalann,
The Buckinghams,
Lyres,
Crooked Eye,
X-102,
Lungfish,
Hasil Adkins,
The Doobie Brothers,
Delta 5,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Minny Pops,
AZ,
Mission of Burma,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chrome,
Scientists,
Chris & Cosey,
Scion,
Funky Four + One,
The Stooges,
Arab on Radar,
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.