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 Malta and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Evens to the funk 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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Buckinghams,
Leonard Cohen,
Erykah Badu,
Fluxion,
Desert Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Music Machine,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Star Department,
Scrapy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
China Crisis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Byrd,
John Cale,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cybotron,
Derrick Morgan,
T.S.O.L.,
Deadbeat,
Country Teasers,
Eli Mardock,
the Fania All-Stars,
Duran Duran,
Public Enemy,
The Searchers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marvin Gaye,
Suburban Knight,
Section 25,
Marc Almond,
The Gories,
Roger Hodgson,
The Stooges,
Monolake,
Altered Images,
MDC,
Procol Harum,
Sparks,
John Holt,
Urselle,
Sarah Menescal,
Ice-T,
The Cramps,
Amon Düül,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crime,
The Saints,
Qualms,
Alice Coltrane,
D'Angelo,
Joy Division,
Icehouse,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.