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 Cuba and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Cowsills to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Flash Fearless,
Panda Bear,
Los Fastidios,
Talk Talk,
The American Breed,
Donny Hathaway,
10cc,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scientists,
Althea and Donna,
the Germs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Essential Logic,
Zero Boys,
Second Layer,
June of 44,
The Victims,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Stooges,
Infiniti,
Brothers Johnson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fad Gadget,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Remains,
B.T. Express,
Suicide,
Con Funk Shun,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Amon Düül II,
Scion,
Ronnie Foster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ludus,
Technova,
The Fortunes,
These Immortal Souls,
Colin Newman,
Eurythmics,
Donald Byrd,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kevin Saunderson,
Negative Approach,
The Kinks,
Hashim,
Monks,
Sandy B,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sarah Menescal,
Altered Images,
Rekid,
Aswad,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skriet,
Cybotron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.