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 Eritrea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Kings Of Tomorrow to the funk 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Warren Ellis,
Sparks,
Soul Sonic Force,
B.T. Express,
The Mummies,
The Toasters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Fela Kuti,
Matthew Halsall,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
ABC,
Excepter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Hot Snakes,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Depeche Mode,
Urselle,
Symarip,
World's Most,
Nirvana,
Echospace,
Bobby Sherman,
Y Pants,
Reuben Wilson,
Jawbox,
Soul II Soul,
Zero Boys,
Essential Logic,
Sällskapet,
The Motions,
kango's stein massive,
Moby Grape,
Parry Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
E-Dancer,
Aural Exciters,
Groovy Waters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
T. Rex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Freddie Wadling,
Sex Pistols,
Colin Newman,
Bad Manners,
Camberwell Now,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Wyatt,
the Germs,
Tommy Roe,
Leonard Cohen,
Malaria!,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
In Retrospect,
Don Cherry,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.