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 Barbados and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Darondo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Popol Vuh tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Agent Orange,
Eddi Front,
Neil Young,
Trumans Water,
Dawn Penn,
Crime,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Hashim,
Prince Buster,
Maleditus Sound,
Sun City Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Reagan Youth,
Arab on Radar,
Procol Harum,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Happenings,
Don Cherry,
Young Marble Giants,
The J.B.'s,
the Slits,
E-Dancer,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Inner City,
Wally Richardson,
Altered Images,
Accadde A,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radio Birdman,
Freddie Wadling,
Moss Icon,
Franke,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultra Naté,
Monks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Hill,
Scion,
X-Ray Spex,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Kenny Larkin,
Junior Murvin,
Idris Muhammad,
Babytalk,
Big Daddy Kane,
Desert Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marcia Griffiths,
Warren Ellis,
World's Most,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Kinks,
Sixth Finger,
The Young Rascals,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.