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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 grime 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Sister Nancy,
Heaven 17,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter & Gordon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Slits,
Can,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang Starr,
Pantaleimon,
Bang On A Can,
Shoche,
Suicide,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Hill,
Don Cherry,
Monks,
David Axelrod,
Suburban Knight,
Moss Icon,
The Evens,
Bobby Womack,
Ultimate Spinach,
Zapp,
Negative Approach,
Y Pants,
The Blackbyrds,
Joey Negro,
Little Man,
Bad Manners,
The Associates,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Angels of Light,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Intrusion,
Wolf Eyes,
Altered Images,
Depeche Mode,
The Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
Brass Construction,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fortunes,
Johnny Clarke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dawn Penn,
John Foxx,
Slick Rick,
Alton Ellis,
Babytalk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül,
The Techniques,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
CMW,
Guru Guru,
Cluster,
Underground Resistance,
The Smiths,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.