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 Ecuador and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Five Americans to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Deakin,
Nik Kershaw,
The Selecter,
Eric Dolphy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Suburban Knight,
The Monks,
Mandrill,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Surgeon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-102,
Mission of Burma,
Juan Atkins,
Silicon Teens,
Youth Brigade,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Howard Jones,
Vladislav Delay,
Tom Boy,
Rites of Spring,
Jeff Lynne,
Sixth Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
Country Teasers,
Archie Shepp,
Ralphi Rosario,
Thompson Twins,
Alison Limerick,
Scrapy,
Swans,
The Pretty Things,
Shoche,
Kas Product,
CMW,
Parry Music,
Yaz,
Mo-Dettes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eli Mardock,
Infiniti,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
This Heat,
Godley & Creme,
Cameo,
Prince Buster,
Yellowson,
Supertramp,
Agent Orange,
The Tremeloes,
Arcadia,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wally Richardson,
Malaria!,
Rod Modell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.