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 Congo and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Clear Light to the disco 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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Pantaleimon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Depeche Mode,
Main Source,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
Bang On A Can,
Popol Vuh,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rod Modell,
Tom Boy,
Idris Muhammad,
Vainqueur,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
Mantronix,
Masters at Work,
The Zeros,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ossler,
The Moleskins,
Lakeside,
Matthew Halsall,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Fraelich,
The Move,
Michelle Simonal,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ken Boothe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Searchers,
Black Sheep,
Infiniti,
The Index,
A Certain Ratio,
The Modern Lovers,
Jacques Brel,
Au Pairs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Porter Ricks,
Nik Kershaw,
MC5,
Faraquet,
DJ Sneak,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun Ra,
Youth Brigade,
CMW,
Chris Corsano,
Cameo,
Dawn Penn,
Agitation Free,
Don Cherry,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.