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 East Timor and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Peter & Gordon to the funk 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Juan Atkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Index,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Litter,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Robert Görl,
The Pretty Things,
The Music Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Half Japanese,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cecil Taylor,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Evens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cheater Slicks,
Quantec,
Reagan Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-Ray Spex,
Laurel Aitken,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rotary Connection,
D'Angelo,
Nico,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scientists,
Organ,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
KRS-One,
Bad Manners,
Aaron Thompson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scan 7,
Average White Band,
Eric Dolphy,
The Angels of Light,
Gang Gang Dance,
Radio Birdman,
June of 44,
The Gap Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Banda Bassotti,
Althea and Donna,
The Blackbyrds,
Brand Nubian,
MDC,
Fatback Band,
Barry Ungar,
Jeru the Damaja,
Chris Corsano,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.