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 Finland and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Malaria!,
Schoolly D,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
JFA,
Nils Olav,
Patti Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pantaleimon,
The Dead C,
CMW,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Average White Band,
The Sonics,
Soft Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Nik Kershaw,
Archie Shepp,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Q and Not U,
Shoche,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roxy Music,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bob Dylan,
Moss Icon,
John Lydon,
The Last Poets,
Clear Light,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Human League,
The Smoke,
Brick,
The New Christs,
Ultravox,
DJ Style,
Von Mondo,
Cluster,
The Fugs,
Underground Resistance,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ten City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The United States of America,
Massinfluence,
Delta 5,
Idris Muhammad,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soulsonic Force,
Section 25,
Mr. Review,
Heaven 17,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Mummies,
Subhumans,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music 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.