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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Siglo XX to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
Von Mondo,
Spandau Ballet,
Ituana,
Nico,
Lyres,
Alice Coltrane,
Oneida,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeff Mills,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Cure,
Bill Near,
MDC,
Metal Thangz,
Gang of Four,
Joey Negro,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sound Behaviour,
Barry Ungar,
Drexciya,
Pussy Galore,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moebius,
OOIOO,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Toni Rubio,
Youth Brigade,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Leaves,
Altered Images,
Crooked Eye,
Hasil Adkins,
Rapeman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Main Source,
Newcleus,
David McCallum,
Tubeway Army,
The Neon Judgement,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Cale,
Pole,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Erykah Badu,
Circle Jerks,
Boz Scaggs,
Intrusion,
Duran Duran,
Kool Moe Dee,
Janne Schatter,
Nas,
Ohio Players,
Rekid,
Pylon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.