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 Nepal and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Donald Fagen 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 Fluxion to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Sarah Menescal,
Johnny Clarke,
The American Breed,
Surgeon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ituana,
Joe Finger,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quadrant,
The Seeds,
Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Royal Trux,
Nick Fraelich,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monochrome Set,
Khruangbin,
Shoche,
Minnie Riperton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Unwound,
Quantec,
Man Parrish,
John Holt,
The Skatalites,
Warsaw,
Brick,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Michelle Simonal,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neu!,
Kayak,
Brothers Johnson,
Tres Demented,
Tropical Tobacco,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
The Toasters,
The Real Kids,
World's Most,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Underground Resistance,
Ultra Naté,
David Bowie,
Inner City,
Q and Not U,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marcia Griffiths,
Schoolly D,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deakin,
Patti Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ponytail,
The Monks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.