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 Peru and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Alice Coltrane to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fall,
F. McDonald,
Country Teasers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pagans,
The Cure,
Joey Negro,
Clear Light,
Boz Scaggs,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agent Orange,
Alton Ellis,
Juan Atkins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Magma,
The Zeros,
The Saints,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Can,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers,
Bronski Beat,
a-ha,
Ponytail,
Agitation Free,
Wings,
Sugar Minott,
cv313,
Fatback Band,
JFA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Michelle Simonal,
The Black Dice,
Skarface,
Kaleidoscope,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nico,
Robert Görl,
Max Romeo,
The Neon Judgement,
Vladislav Delay,
The Litter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gladiators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eden Ahbez,
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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.