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 Montenegro and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Camberwell Now,
Scan 7,
Oblivians,
The Barracudas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Au Pairs,
Laurel Aitken,
John Lydon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rites of Spring,
Livin' Joy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Connie Case,
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Desert Stars,
David Bowie,
kango's stein massive,
LL Cool J,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marine Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Patti Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
Parry Music,
Dead Boys,
Sparks,
Lower 48,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aswad,
Donald Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eden Ahbez,
Faraquet,
The Associates,
The Modern Lovers,
Aural Exciters,
Aloha Tigers,
The Kinks,
Yellowson,
Lyres,
Zero Boys,
FM Einheit,
Barbara Tucker,
Mark Hollis,
Unrelated Segments,
the Human League,
Agent Orange,
Blake Baxter,
ABC,
Gang Starr,
Grandmaster Flash,
Faust,
Robert Hood,
Wire,
DNA,
Country Teasers,
Newcleus,
Qualms,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.