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 the UAE and from Copenhagen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Lalann to the techno 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Smiths,
Aswad,
Soul II Soul,
Isaac Hayes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Technova,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Absolute Body Control,
Tubeway Army,
Black Pus,
The Martian,
Man Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Saints,
David McCallum,
Swell Maps,
Joyce Sims,
Negative Approach,
Jacob Miller,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ohio Players,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Maurizio,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hoover,
Delta 5,
Sarah Menescal,
Wings,
Cecil Taylor,
Pantaleimon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oneida,
Peter & Gordon,
The Associates,
Metal Thangz,
10cc,
Ice-T,
Aaron Thompson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Desert Stars,
World's Most,
The Fall,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
Newcleus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.