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 Romania and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Vainqueur to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Skaos,
David Axelrod,
Joensuu 1685,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Standells,
Piero Umiliani,
ABC,
Danielle Patucci,
Q and Not U,
Zero Boys,
Zapp,
Yusef Lateef,
The Smoke,
The Velvet Underground,
the Normal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Faust,
Kayak,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
Radiopuhelimet,
World's Most,
Gabor Szabo,
Fela Kuti,
Tim Buckley,
Circle Jerks,
Donald Byrd,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
Mo-Dettes,
Leonard Cohen,
Blake Baxter,
Roy Ayers,
The Busters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Basic Channel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Motorama,
Rosa Yemen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fluxion,
Minny Pops,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Parrish,
Excepter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Michelle Simonal,
Joyce Sims,
Yellowson,
ABBA,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sight & Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.