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 Marshall Islands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Anthony Braxton to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
F. McDonald,
Brick,
Desert Stars,
Don Cherry,
Shuggie Otis,
Chris Corsano,
The Monochrome Set,
Malaria!,
Oblivians,
Scott Walker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crash Course in Science,
Steve Hackett,
Magazine,
The Cramps,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jandek,
Little Man,
Harmonia,
Drive Like Jehu,
Absolute Body Control,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blues Magoos,
Lungfish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Lindisfarne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
John Foxx,
World's Most,
Dawn Penn,
Pharoah Sanders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Sheep,
Ken Boothe,
The Moody Blues,
The Five Americans,
Circle Jerks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Piero Umiliani,
Minor Threat,
The Dirtbombs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Reuben Wilson,
Danielle Patucci,
Faraquet,
Harpers Bizarre,
Warsaw,
Roy Ayers,
Saccharine Trust,
Inner City,
Cheater Slicks,
The Kinks,
Al Stewart,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.