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 Greece and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Barracudas to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
Hashim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Sonics,
Whodini,
Dark Day,
Steve Hackett,
Grey Daturas,
Accadde A,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
OOIOO,
Johnny Clarke,
Soulsonic Force,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Charles Mingus,
The Gap Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Scientists,
The Stooges,
John Foxx,
Camberwell Now,
Lou Christie,
Spoonie Gee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Albert Ayler,
Fad Gadget,
Bauhaus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bob Dylan,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
Dorothy Ashby,
Don Cherry,
Masters at Work,
Sonic Youth,
EPMD,
The Smiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Move,
Second Layer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yusef Lateef,
The Vogues,
Bluetip,
Amazonics,
Aaron Thompson,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Pole,
Kerri Chandler,
The Mojo Men,
Ken Boothe,
The Monochrome Set,
The Pretty Things,
The Flesh Eaters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ossler,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.