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 Liechtenstein and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the electroclash 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
The Angels of Light,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tubeway Army,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crash Course in Science,
Maleditus Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lee Hazlewood,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fugs,
Blossom Toes,
The Golliwogs,
Au Pairs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed,
Yusef Lateef,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jeff Mills,
Yazoo,
The Dead C,
Joey Negro,
Blancmange,
Sun Ra,
The Toasters,
Barry Ungar,
R.M.O.,
10cc,
DNA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mary Jane Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lungfish,
Tears for Fears,
Warren Ellis,
Vladislav Delay,
Electric Prunes,
Rod Modell,
Todd Rundgren,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Japan,
Eli Mardock,
ABC,
The J.B.'s,
Alison Limerick,
Organ,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Interpol,
Pierre Henry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultra Naté,
FM Einheit,
Eurythmics,
The Cure,
The Black Dice,
Robert Wyatt,
Pussy Galore,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.