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 East Timor and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Martian to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Model 500,
Main Source,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Colin Newman,
Warren Ellis,
Loose Ends,
Newcleus,
Parry Music,
Man Eating Sloth,
Los Fastidios,
Can,
Bobby Sherman,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Girls At Our Best!,
Television,
Minutemen,
Scratch Acid,
Drexciya,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Brothers Johnson,
John Foxx,
Blossom Toes,
The Modern Lovers,
Rotary Connection,
David McCallum,
Half Japanese,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Negative Approach,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Leonard Cohen,
D'Angelo,
ABC,
Yazoo,
Clear Light,
Hot Snakes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Kinks,
Sällskapet,
Danielle Patucci,
Mantronix,
Gichy Dan,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Motions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Scott Walker,
Shoche,
the Normal,
Yaz,
This Heat,
Magma,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Animal Collective,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter and Kerry,
Joy Division,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.