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 El Salvador and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Eddi Front,
Khruangbin,
Wasted Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
Electric Prunes,
Mars,
Can,
Juan Atkins,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Duran Duran,
The Toasters,
The Durutti Column,
David McCallum,
Charles Mingus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Blake Baxter,
Ornette Coleman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Saints,
Severed Heads,
The Cure,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doors,
Absolute Body Control,
Ken Boothe,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Almond,
The Remains,
The Fuzztones,
Davy DMX,
Boredoms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New Age Steppers,
Moebius,
Barrington Levy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
Zero Boys,
Black Sheep,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
This Heat,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fatback Band,
E-Dancer,
Au Pairs,
Quadrant,
Matthew Bourne,
Rosa Yemen,
H. Thieme,
the Bar-Kays,
Los Fastidios,
The Gap Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ohio Players,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.