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 Guatemala and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Womack to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
June of 44,
The Saints,
Fela Kuti,
Morten Harket,
MC5,
Banda Bassotti,
Nico,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Hood,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Urselle,
Massinfluence,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bootsy Collins,
Junior Murvin,
X-101,
The Black Dice,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Severed Heads,
Gang Green,
Chris Corsano,
Michelle Simonal,
Cluster,
Chris & Cosey,
Magma,
Gerry Rafferty,
a-ha,
Popol Vuh,
Minnie Riperton,
Stiv Bators,
John Foxx,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Niagra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agitation Free,
Delta 5,
These Immortal Souls,
Kas Product,
The Skatalites,
The Birthday Party,
Lyres,
ABBA,
Erasure,
Terry Callier,
Radio Birdman,
Electric Prunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joyce Sims,
Sun Ra,
10cc,
David McCallum,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sixth Finger,
The Motions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.