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 El Salvador and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Cameo,
Wally Richardson,
Skriet,
Unrelated Segments,
Alton Ellis,
Marine Girls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Echospace,
Country Teasers,
The Red Krayola,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hoover,
Mandrill,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Neu!,
Organ,
The Angels of Light,
The Beau Brummels,
Pere Ubu,
Sällskapet,
Joyce Sims,
A Certain Ratio,
David Axelrod,
Todd Rundgren,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lee Hazlewood,
The J.B.'s,
Los Fastidios,
Connie Case,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lyres,
Erasure,
H. Thieme,
Urselle,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
The Music Machine,
Barry Ungar,
The Residents,
World's Most,
Guru Guru,
Negative Approach,
Blake Baxter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lalann,
X-101,
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Osbourne,
Harmonia,
The Offenders,
John Coltrane,
Camberwell Now,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mr. Review,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.