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 Spain and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron 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 Morten Harket to the jazz 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Mandrill,
Accadde A,
Skarface,
Scion,
La Düsseldorf,
Dead Boys,
cv313,
The Pop Group,
The Modern Lovers,
D'Angelo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Essential Logic,
Alice Coltrane,
Sandy B,
Monolake,
Oneida,
Malaria!,
Intrusion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Television Personalities,
Schoolly D,
Make Up,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Golliwogs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jandek,
Crash Course in Science,
The Divine Comedy,
Dual Sessions,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tres Demented,
Blossom Toes,
Underground Resistance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare,
Black Sheep,
Reagan Youth,
John Lydon,
Agent Orange,
Amon Düül,
the Sonics,
Funkadelic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Oblivians,
Charles Mingus,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wings,
Blake Baxter,
The Offenders,
Sun Ra,
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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.