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 India and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Stiv Bators to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Colin Newman,
Brand Nubian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Smooth,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erykah Badu,
Charles Mingus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eurythmics,
Black Flag,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Procol Harum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Avey Tare,
Aloha Tigers,
Grandmaster Flash,
AZ,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Danielle Patucci,
The Monks,
Don Cherry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lyres,
Boredoms,
Deadbeat,
Kaleidoscope,
Brass Construction,
JFA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Carl Craig,
The Buckinghams,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Piero Umiliani,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Byrd,
Joe Finger,
Arab on Radar,
Cybotron,
Spandau Ballet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deakin,
Cymande,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Grass Roots,
Ludus,
The Invisible,
Scientists,
Infiniti,
Patti Smith,
Pylon,
Rod Modell,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.