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 Denmark and from Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 The Gap Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
The Monochrome Set,
Roxy Music,
This Heat,
Lower 48,
MDC,
H. Thieme,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Godley & Creme,
Unwound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Magma,
Depeche Mode,
Jeff Lynne,
Shuggie Otis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Germs,
Radiohead,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bronski Beat,
Harmonia,
Neu!,
Amazonics,
ABC,
Banda Bassotti,
Dawn Penn,
Zero Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Motorama,
the Normal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
LL Cool J,
The Blues Magoos,
Max Romeo,
The Fugs,
Blancmange,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gerry Rafferty,
Darondo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang of Four,
Loose Ends,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Trojans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Saints,
Talk Talk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Janne Schatter,
Symarip,
Cybotron,
Reuben Wilson,
Boz Scaggs,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.