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 Guinea and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Panda Bear to the rap 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soft Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
R.M.O.,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fire Engines,
Stockholm Monsters,
FM Einheit,
Wings,
Peter & Gordon,
T. Rex,
David Bowie,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Walker Brothers,
The Moleskins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fall,
Harry Pussy,
John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Barry Ungar,
Essential Logic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultra Naté,
K-Klass,
Maurizio,
Morten Harket,
48th St. Collective,
Warren Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
Japan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
D'Angelo,
MDC,
Sarah Menescal,
Cal Tjader,
Yazoo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zero Boys,
Eve St. Jones,
Aaron Thompson,
John Coltrane,
Marc Almond,
The Leaves,
Reuben Wilson,
Nico,
Icehouse,
Kas Product,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joy Division,
OOIOO,
Erykah Badu,
The Young Rascals,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soul II Soul,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.