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 Egypt and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Henry Cow to the jazz 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
AZ,
Oblivians,
The Index,
Organ,
Electric Prunes,
Smog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Spoonie Gee,
The Velvet Underground,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nick Fraelich,
Anthony Braxton,
Cymande,
Grey Daturas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Darondo,
Gichy Dan,
Peter and Kerry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Mummies,
Jeff Lynne,
Wolf Eyes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
T.S.O.L.,
Saccharine Trust,
Dawn Penn,
The Invisible,
Scratch Acid,
Kayak,
Tres Demented,
Gang of Four,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Judy Mowatt,
Sam Rivers,
Massinfluence,
Radiopuhelimet,
Al Stewart,
Pere Ubu,
The Busters,
Tim Buckley,
Minny Pops,
Panda Bear,
The Neon Judgement,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gun Club,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Magazine,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Index,
The J.B.'s,
Can,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.