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 Philippines and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ornette Coleman,
Dennis Brown,
Kerri Chandler,
Reagan Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Patti Smith,
Whodini,
The Red Krayola,
Aural Exciters,
Masters at Work,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fire Engines,
Ten City,
the Swans,
Qualms,
Lucky Dragons,
ABC,
The Stooges,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül,
Sixth Finger,
kango's stein massive,
Warsaw,
Joe Finger,
Wolf Eyes,
Janne Schatter,
Maurizio,
Khruangbin,
Bluetip,
Sparks,
D'Angelo,
Vladislav Delay,
Barbara Tucker,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lightning Bolt,
Average White Band,
Jacob Miller,
Godley & Creme,
Sister Nancy,
The Birthday Party,
The Cowsills,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rapeman,
Byron Stingily,
Mission of Burma,
LL Cool J,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Wyatt,
The Gladiators,
Thompson Twins,
Todd Rundgren,
JFA,
Unwound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Hood,
Funky Four + One,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.