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 Australia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar 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 Glenn Branca to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer 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 synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Visage,
Brothers Johnson,
Freddie Wadling,
Don Cherry,
X-101,
OOIOO,
Soulsonic Force,
John Foxx,
Bauhaus,
Roxy Music,
The Searchers,
Joy Division,
Jeff Mills,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Metal Thangz,
Graham Central Station,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moleskins,
DJ Sneak,
Magazine,
Thompson Twins,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
ABBA,
Lou Reed,
Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fugs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rekid,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Guru Guru,
Robert Wyatt,
Minor Threat,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Zero Boys,
Little Man,
Sam Rivers,
Danielle Patucci,
Livin' Joy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Connie Case,
Pantytec,
Donny Hathaway,
Infiniti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rotary Connection,
Grandmaster Flash,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
The Selecter,
Roy Ayers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.