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 Albania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Procol Harum to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio 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?
Sight & Sound,
Ohio Players,
Brass Construction,
Soulsonic Force,
Los Fastidios,
B.T. Express,
Ken Boothe,
La Düsseldorf,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fugs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stetsasonic,
Gang of Four,
Tears for Fears,
Cymande,
Albert Ayler,
Laurel Aitken,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Kas Product,
Todd Rundgren,
Sam Rivers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Japan,
The Slackers,
Masters at Work,
John Coltrane,
Idris Muhammad,
the Swans,
Symarip,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Boredoms,
Tommy Roe,
Animal Collective,
Simply Red,
The Monks,
Eric Dolphy,
Dual Sessions,
Lungfish,
PIL,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ossler,
Chrome,
World's Most,
KRS-One,
Roger Hodgson,
Michelle Simonal,
Nick Fraelich,
Bill Wells,
Procol Harum,
Niagra,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalann,
The Selecter,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gil Scott Heron,
Talk Talk,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.