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 Lesotho and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pussy Galore to the jazz 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
Japan,
The Cramps,
Procol Harum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Das Ding,
Warren Ellis,
D'Angelo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Essential Logic,
Mo-Dettes,
Magazine,
Black Flag,
Leonard Cohen,
Lungfish,
Eli Mardock,
La Düsseldorf,
Sight & Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doors,
The Slackers,
The Monks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ponytail,
Ludus,
Carl Craig,
Minutemen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Clarke,
Blossom Toes,
Pantaleimon,
Man Parrish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
JFA,
Zero Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camberwell Now,
Black Moon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neil Young,
Jeff Mills,
Eurythmics,
This Heat,
The Fall,
the Normal,
Dennis Brown,
Rakim,
Cybotron,
Los Fastidios,
Graham Central Station,
Funkadelic,
Yusef Lateef,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Last Poets,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.