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 Bolivia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Roxette to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Supertramp,
Fear,
Soft Cell,
Mo-Dettes,
Dawn Penn,
The Five Americans,
X-Ray Spex,
The Modern Lovers,
Bootsy Collins,
Cal Tjader,
T. Rex,
Amon Düül II,
Eurythmics,
The Buckinghams,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chris & Cosey,
the Swans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Thompson Twins,
The Mojo Men,
Sight & Sound,
Andrew Hill,
The Sonics,
Marvin Gaye,
Monolake,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sparks,
Icehouse,
Henry Cow,
Derrick Morgan,
EPMD,
The Doobie Brothers,
Niagra,
Groovy Waters,
The Birthday Party,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Soft Cell,
Scrapy,
Moby Grape,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ponytail,
Roxette,
The Young Rascals,
T.S.O.L.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gabor Szabo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tomorrow,
Intrusion,
Qualms,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Searchers,
Bang On A Can,
PIL,
Shuggie Otis,
Eric Copeland,
Bill Near,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.