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 Jamaica and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joy Division to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Mars,
The Mummies,
Neil Young,
Roxy Music,
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed,
Aswad,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Juan Atkins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kaleidoscope,
Minutemen,
Kerri Chandler,
Albert Ayler,
These Immortal Souls,
Los Fastidios,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Standells,
Yusef Lateef,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joe Finger,
10cc,
Grey Daturas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deadbeat,
The Offenders,
Severed Heads,
Silicon Teens,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
The J.B.'s,
Jacques Brel,
Easy Going,
Marine Girls,
Y Pants,
Gabor Szabo,
Sound Behaviour,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
Oneida,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Saints,
Ronnie Foster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Unwound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Pantaleimon,
Freddie Wadling,
Absolute Body Control,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Warren Ellis,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.