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 Cyprus and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Vladislav Delay,
The Zeros,
Juan Atkins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
a-ha,
Subhumans,
Eric Dolphy,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crash Course in Science,
A Certain Ratio,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Human League,
Unwound,
MDC,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Smiths,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gun Club,
Deadbeat,
Albert Ayler,
The Stooges,
Black Flag,
John Coltrane,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance,
The Fugs,
Tomorrow,
New Age Steppers,
Morten Harket,
The Trojans,
Rekid,
Harpers Bizarre,
Archie Shepp,
Sex Pistols,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Depeche Mode,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Hood,
Visage,
Sarah Menescal,
Eve St. Jones,
Gong,
The Moleskins,
The Leaves,
New Order,
Gang Green,
New York Dolls,
Whodini,
The Pretty Things,
Pylon,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.