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 Romania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rod Modell,
Mad Mike,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Holt,
Marshall Jefferson,
U.S. Maple,
Heaven 17,
Blancmange,
The Real Kids,
Gang Green,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Unrelated Segments,
Soft Machine,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Michelle Simonal,
Section 25,
Anakelly,
Unwound,
Lebanon Hanover,
Al Stewart,
Faraquet,
Cymande,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kayak,
Marine Girls,
The Searchers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radio Birdman,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sound Behaviour,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Sugar Minott,
Second Layer,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Görl,
Drexciya,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eve St. Jones,
The Skatalites,
The Music Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Wyatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Electric Prunes,
Todd Terry,
X-Ray Spex,
The Barracudas,
New Order,
Masters at Work,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.