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 Mongolia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 Slick Rick to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Lakeside,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gong,
Minnie Riperton,
The Remains,
Drexciya,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Mandrill,
Con Funk Shun,
Sister Nancy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Henry Cow,
Bang On A Can,
Rakim,
Matthew Bourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fluxion,
Derrick May,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Anakelly,
Vladislav Delay,
Avey Tare,
The Five Americans,
Eve St. Jones,
The Martian,
Archie Shepp,
One Last Wish,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fall,
Iggy Pop,
Roger Hodgson,
F. McDonald,
Television Personalities,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Offenders,
Los Fastidios,
Tubeway Army,
Peter and Kerry,
Jeff Mills,
Alton Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
The Toasters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Move,
Ken Boothe,
Johnny Clarke,
Juan Atkins,
E-Dancer,
Motorama,
The Electric Prunes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hot Snakes,
Can,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Maurizio,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.