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 the UAE and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Model 500 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angry Samoans,
Chris Corsano,
Rekid,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Avey Tare,
Amazonics,
DJ Style,
Black Sheep,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Half Japanese,
B.T. Express,
The Slits,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Popol Vuh,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Velvet Underground,
DNA,
Jerry's Kids,
June Days,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Germs,
Thee Headcoats,
Funky Four + One,
Barbara Tucker,
The Slackers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Scientists,
The Kinks,
Alton Ellis,
The Golliwogs,
Unrelated Segments,
Technova,
Cecil Taylor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
K-Klass,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Sun City Girls,
Faust,
Amon Düül,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Lydon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marvin Gaye,
Mr. Review,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eddi Front,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ten City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jimmy McGriff,
Underground Resistance,
Don Cherry,
Minny Pops,
Mary Jane Girls,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.