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 Montenegro and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 Scion to the grime 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Underground Resistance,
Ludus,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
Bobby Byrd,
Gong,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Model 500,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ossler,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Basic Channel,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Carl Craig,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pere Ubu,
Kenny Larkin,
Crooked Eye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Happenings,
Tubeway Army,
Cluster,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Standells,
Black Pus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
OOIOO,
Traffic Nightmare,
Boz Scaggs,
Ituana,
Deadbeat,
MC5,
The Vogues,
Scientists,
World's Most,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
The United States of America,
David Bowie,
Peter & Gordon,
Todd Terry,
The Gories,
Mad Mike,
ABC,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
New Age Steppers,
Sparks,
Dual Sessions,
Sound Behaviour,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.