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 Austria and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 the Bar-Kays to the rap 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Bluetip,
The Happenings,
Anakelly,
Slick Rick,
Kerri Chandler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Au Pairs,
Guru Guru,
Roger Hodgson,
Section 25,
Aural Exciters,
Magazine,
Crooked Eye,
The American Breed,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Germs,
Gang Starr,
Schoolly D,
Eddi Front,
The Misunderstood,
Sex Pistols,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nas,
The Moody Blues,
The Martian,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cramps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fugs,
Sonic Youth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Patti Smith,
Vladislav Delay,
the Normal,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
Marmalade,
Agitation Free,
The Tremeloes,
Cluster,
Hoover,
Sun City Girls,
Big Daddy Kane,
Urselle,
The Smiths,
David McCallum,
Aswad,
Tommy Roe,
Radio Birdman,
U.S. Maple,
Marc Almond,
Leonard Cohen,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Josef K,
The Count Five,
La Düsseldorf,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.