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 Finland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the funk 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Country Teasers,
Sun City Girls,
The Mojo Men,
Jeru the Damaja,
Parry Music,
Eden Ahbez,
Warsaw,
Arthur Verocai,
Negative Approach,
Marvin Gaye,
Steve Hackett,
10cc,
Altered Images,
Prince Buster,
Amazonics,
Albert Ayler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Slick Rick,
Crooked Eye,
The Knickerbockers,
Wally Richardson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Halsall,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
The Busters,
Jacob Miller,
Newcleus,
Fluxion,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Patti Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Judy Mowatt,
Joensuu 1685,
Donny Hathaway,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Womack,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Morten Harket,
Arab on Radar,
Maurizio,
Funkadelic,
Aswad,
Stiv Bators,
The Human League,
Nils Olav,
Soulsonic Force,
The Seeds,
Josef K,
Television Personalities,
Terry Callier,
Moebius,
Dorothy Ashby,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Pretty Things,
Deakin,
Jeff Mills,
DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA.
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.