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 Finland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dave Gahan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Bowie,
Soft Machine,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Das Ding,
Lower 48,
James White and The Blacks,
Maurizio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Technova,
Jimmy McGriff,
Spandau Ballet,
Mandrill,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cowsills,
The Saints,
Niagra,
Funkadelic,
The Barracudas,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter & Gordon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Basic Channel,
John Lydon,
UT,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
Cybotron,
DJ Sneak,
Eli Mardock,
Goldenarms,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dark Day,
John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Smiths,
Leonard Cohen,
U.S. Maple,
Barry Ungar,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobby Byrd,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Groovy Waters,
Iggy Pop,
Lindisfarne,
John Coltrane,
Fela Kuti,
Cameo,
John Foxx,
The Monks,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.