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 Georgia and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Gil Scott Heron 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Fad Gadget,
Drexciya,
Roxy Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Iggy Pop,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Agitation Free,
Metal Thangz,
Howard Jones,
Quantec,
Marvin Gaye,
Von Mondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Basic Channel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Reagan Youth,
The United States of America,
Donny Hathaway,
The Durutti Column,
The Move,
L. Decosne,
The Star Department,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
EPMD,
The Searchers,
Marmalade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Television,
James White and The Blacks,
The Young Rascals,
Shuggie Otis,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlback,
ABC,
Bobby Sherman,
Crime,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ornette Coleman,
The Seeds,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Standells,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pop Group,
Blossom Toes,
Banda Bassotti,
Moebius,
T.S.O.L.,
Althea and Donna,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Velvet Underground,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.