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 Botswana and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the punk 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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
The Birthday Party,
Unrelated Segments,
Can,
Saccharine Trust,
Basic Channel,
The Motions,
The Young Rascals,
The Gladiators,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Little Man,
the Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Womack,
Barrington Levy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
kango's stein massive,
X-Ray Spex,
Silicon Teens,
The Mummies,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minnie Riperton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lee Hazlewood,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Slave,
Alice Coltrane,
Pantytec,
The Fugs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sixth Finger,
Yaz,
Sun City Girls,
The Flesh Eaters,
Swans,
T. Rex,
Sister Nancy,
Kenny Larkin,
China Crisis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skaos,
Barry Ungar,
Dorothy Ashby,
Technova,
Jerry's Kids,
The Cramps,
Q65,
Fear,
Arthur Verocai,
Tomorrow,
Donny Hathaway,
Supertramp,
Bobby Sherman,
Bad Manners,
Youth Brigade,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.