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 Marshall Islands and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Excepter to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Maurizio,
The Divine Comedy,
Pantaleimon,
Jandek,
Arab on Radar,
U.S. Maple,
Animal Collective,
Lakeside,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Siglo XX,
Public Enemy,
Matthew Halsall,
Negative Approach,
The Fugs,
Thompson Twins,
The Blackbyrds,
The Raincoats,
Pagans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Litter,
Niagra,
The Monochrome Set,
The Wake,
Throbbing Gristle,
Desert Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Eurythmics,
Neu!,
Bill Near,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young,
Scott Walker,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Amon Düül II,
This Heat,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Busters,
K-Klass,
Bauhaus,
Sarah Menescal,
R.M.O.,
Donny Hathaway,
Khruangbin,
Organ,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Masters at Work,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
Dark Day,
Von Mondo,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.