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 Rwanda and from Sao Paulo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Panda Bear to the disco 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs 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?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Altered Images,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Normal,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nils Olav,
Nirvana,
Kas Product,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
E-Dancer,
Soft Machine,
Anakelly,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visage,
The Modern Lovers,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Eddi Front,
The Fuzztones,
Lee Hazlewood,
Shuggie Otis,
Cymande,
Fugazi,
Mad Mike,
The Raincoats,
Black Pus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Junior Murvin,
Brass Construction,
ABC,
Cheater Slicks,
Rites of Spring,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Halsall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
June Days,
Byron Stingily,
Patti Smith,
Television Personalities,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cluster,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Skaos,
Zero Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Pagans,
Toni Rubio,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.