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 India and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin 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 Popol Vuh to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Japan,
Kayak,
Yusef Lateef,
Heaven 17,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Brass Construction,
Pantaleimon,
Carl Craig,
Ken Boothe,
Terry Callier,
DNA,
The Blues Magoos,
The Mummies,
Graham Central Station,
Camberwell Now,
Scott Walker,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
Warren Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Television,
Janne Schatter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Doors,
Rekid,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
Steve Hackett,
Minor Threat,
Moss Icon,
Charles Mingus,
Eurythmics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gang Starr,
Sarah Menescal,
The Music Machine,
Minny Pops,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lower 48,
David Axelrod,
Eric B and Rakim,
New York Dolls,
Cal Tjader,
Curtis Mayfield,
Country Teasers,
Tubeway Army,
Marine Girls,
Hashim,
The Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Moleskins,
Cymande,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.