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 Iceland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Mo-Dettes to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Bronski Beat,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Byrd,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Darondo,
New Age Steppers,
Scratch Acid,
The Searchers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABC,
Model 500,
Pylon,
The Offenders,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Funky Four + One,
The Slackers,
The Black Dice,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lalann,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eli Mardock,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Sonics,
X-102,
David McCallum,
Sun City Girls,
EPMD,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Whodini,
D'Angelo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The United States of America,
The Moody Blues,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gabor Szabo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Piero Umiliani,
Popol Vuh,
The Moleskins,
Juan Atkins,
The Durutti Column,
the Germs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rufus Thomas,
Wolf Eyes,
Anakelly,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roger Hodgson,
The Last Poets,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.