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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Motorama to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
The Star Department,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Count Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pantytec,
Blake Baxter,
Fear,
Gang Starr,
Lou Christie,
Grauzone,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Last Poets,
Pulsallama,
Alice Coltrane,
Moby Grape,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Names,
U.S. Maple,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Khruangbin,
Nik Kershaw,
Main Source,
The Techniques,
Marine Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ornette Coleman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Suburban Knight,
The Fortunes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
Monks,
The Black Dice,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brand Nubian,
the Sonics,
Cameo,
World's Most,
CMW,
Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
Drexciya,
Sällskapet,
Youth Brigade,
Lalann,
Flipper,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sparks,
Rites of Spring,
Soft Machine,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.