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 Mexico and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the disco 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
Charles Mingus,
The Electric Prunes,
Tubeway Army,
Au Pairs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monks,
Iggy Pop,
Sun Ra,
The Knickerbockers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Velvet Underground,
Ludus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Make Up,
Hardrive,
Radio Birdman,
Barbara Tucker,
Minnie Riperton,
Von Mondo,
Outsiders,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Byrd,
Dawn Penn,
Stiv Bators,
Ultravox,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
K-Klass,
Mandrill,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cecil Taylor,
Rotary Connection,
Albert Ayler,
The Skatalites,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Görl,
Sixth Finger,
Duran Duran,
Qualms,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Mills,
Darondo,
48th St. Collective,
Japan,
Grey Daturas,
Eve St. Jones,
D'Angelo,
Freddie Wadling,
David Bowie,
Can,
The Tremeloes,
Cybotron,
The Cramps,
Nils Olav,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kerri Chandler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Banda Bassotti,
CMW,
The Moody Blues,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.