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 Qatar and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Divine Comedy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Vainqueur,
Barrington Levy,
Siglo XX,
Fear,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Invisible,
Joensuu 1685,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Techniques,
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Yazoo,
La Düsseldorf,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sparks,
Maurizio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Index,
Popol Vuh,
Cluster,
PIL,
Janne Schatter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Y Pants,
Scrapy,
Sun City Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skarface,
Faraquet,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Bananas,
MC5,
Ituana,
Bill Near,
Shuggie Otis,
Pagans,
Depeche Mode,
Ornette Coleman,
Barbara Tucker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
Patti Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Amon Düül II,
Marmalade,
Roxy Music,
Grauzone,
Monks,
Eric Dolphy,
Essential Logic,
Zero Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
Massinfluence,
Wally Richardson,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.