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 Ecuador and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moss Icon to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Alison Limerick,
Eric Dolphy,
Jeff Lynne,
Wings,
Niagra,
DJ Sneak,
David Axelrod,
Al Stewart,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Erasure,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Residents,
Colin Newman,
48th St. Collective,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ludus,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
LL Cool J,
Depeche Mode,
Mary Jane Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
Altered Images,
Fad Gadget,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Metal Thangz,
T.S.O.L.,
Procol Harum,
Popol Vuh,
Kaleidoscope,
Wire,
Minor Threat,
Godley & Creme,
Nick Fraelich,
Dark Day,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
Mission of Burma,
The Index,
The Modern Lovers,
Faust,
Mantronix,
Todd Rundgren,
Roger Hodgson,
Qualms,
Simply Red,
The Pop Group,
Drive Like Jehu,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bill Near,
Eden Ahbez,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lakeside,
Jawbox,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Crispy Ambulance,
Chris & Cosey,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.