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 Guyana and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the grunge 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry 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?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Country Teasers,
Sound Behaviour,
Jacques Brel,
Alison Limerick,
Massinfluence,
Amon Düül II,
Spoonie Gee,
Depeche Mode,
the Association,
Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lungfish,
Lower 48,
The Young Rascals,
Television,
The Saints,
The Smoke,
Robert Görl,
kango's stein massive,
Swell Maps,
The Moody Blues,
10cc,
Cameo,
The Gladiators,
Arcadia,
Letta Mbulu,
Andrew Hill,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vainqueur,
Aswad,
The Wake,
Arthur Verocai,
Deakin,
Fela Kuti,
The Durutti Column,
Clear Light,
Charles Mingus,
Rakim,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Wyatt,
Con Funk Shun,
The Modern Lovers,
Mandrill,
Althea and Donna,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Hot Snakes,
The Monochrome Set,
Quadrant,
Make Up,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
Donny Hathaway,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glambeats Corp.,
Negative Approach,
The Grass Roots,
Public Enemy,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.