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 Nepal and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
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 marimba 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 Animal Collective to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Arcadia,
Interpol,
Barclay James Harvest,
Toni Rubio,
Alton Ellis,
Bill Near,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Roy Ayers,
Quadrant,
Pere Ubu,
Swell Maps,
Organ,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Selecter,
The Monks,
DJ Sneak,
Index,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Wake,
Oblivians,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nirvana,
Desert Stars,
Motorama,
Davy DMX,
Eric Copeland,
Grandmaster Flash,
R.M.O.,
Franke,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Barrington Levy,
Tears for Fears,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Excepter,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Livin' Joy,
The Angels of Light,
The Slackers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Guru Guru,
Terry Callier,
The Music Machine,
Jacques Brel,
The Mummies,
Fluxion,
The Fall,
Skaos,
The Remains,
Flamin' Groovies,
Laurel Aitken,
Soft Machine,
Danielle Patucci,
Can,
Sam Rivers,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.