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 Malta and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 spring reverb 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 Inner City to the electroclash 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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek 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?
Anthony Braxton,
Leonard Cohen,
The Slits,
Average White Band,
The Remains,
JFA,
L. Decosne,
Bootsy Collins,
Smog,
Hot Snakes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Swans,
DNA,
Lebanon Hanover,
Unwound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Iggy Pop,
Simply Red,
The Tremeloes,
Zero Boys,
Man Parrish,
David Bowie,
Matthew Bourne,
Kayak,
Nirvana,
Kenny Larkin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jandek,
Deakin,
The Grass Roots,
Q and Not U,
June Days,
Marine Girls,
B.T. Express,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter and Kerry,
Electric Prunes,
The Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pole,
Khruangbin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Cybotron,
Second Layer,
Neu!,
Moebius,
The Young Rascals,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terry Callier,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
T. Rex,
Con Funk Shun,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.