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 Belgium and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Archie Shepp to the punk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Moby Grape,
the Swans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joy Division,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Wyatt,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roger Hodgson,
DJ Style,
Gang Green,
Camberwell Now,
Amazonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Arthur Verocai,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül,
Bobby Sherman,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
kango's stein massive,
Bootsy Collins,
Whodini,
Scratch Acid,
Kevin Saunderson,
Arab on Radar,
X-102,
Scrapy,
The Monochrome Set,
One Last Wish,
Rites of Spring,
Swell Maps,
Tommy Roe,
Terry Callier,
Khruangbin,
Swans,
Laurel Aitken,
Skaos,
The Blues Magoos,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Metal Thangz,
Half Japanese,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
The Red Krayola,
Reagan Youth,
Hashim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Letta Mbulu,
DNA,
The Alarm Clocks,
Erasure,
Nick Fraelich,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cymande,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.