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 Jamaica and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Isaac Hayes to the dance 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 and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stetsasonic,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DJ Sneak,
Colin Newman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dark Day,
Gichy Dan,
Youth Brigade,
Tomorrow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Smoke,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blancmange,
Warren Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
The Cramps,
Pantaleimon,
Echospace,
Rufus Thomas,
Fela Kuti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Technova,
Siglo XX,
Infiniti,
Fear,
Pet Shop Boys,
ABC,
Supertramp,
Oneida,
Excepter,
Severed Heads,
Erasure,
Organ,
The Smiths,
Khruangbin,
The Vogues,
The Mojo Men,
Eric Dolphy,
Scratch Acid,
The Slits,
The Pop Group,
the Normal,
Joensuu 1685,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lalann,
Negative Approach,
Joey Negro,
John Cale,
The Invisible,
Sandy B,
Grauzone,
Crash Course in Science,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.