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 Netherlands and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Hashim to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fall,
Crash Course in Science,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
E-Dancer,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Normal,
Sam Rivers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kayak,
Malaria!,
Flash Fearless,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fugs,
Byron Stingily,
PIL,
Kerrie Biddell,
Oneida,
The Red Krayola,
X-Ray Spex,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arcadia,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Golliwogs,
a-ha,
The Knickerbockers,
Symarip,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crime,
Anakelly,
Trumans Water,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boz Scaggs,
Gabor Szabo,
R.M.O.,
Soulsonic Force,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Japan,
One Last Wish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Arab on Radar,
Delta 5,
Tomorrow,
The Durutti Column,
Marvin Gaye,
The Martian,
Technova,
D'Angelo,
Agent Orange,
Sällskapet,
Main Source,
Hasil Adkins,
The Last Poets,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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