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 Kenya and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Unwound to the dance 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Mandrill,
The Standells,
cv313,
Procol Harum,
Donny Hathaway,
Ossler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cameo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Amon Düül,
Symarip,
Joey Negro,
The Saints,
Tomorrow,
Barry Ungar,
Spoonie Gee,
Jeff Lynne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
R.M.O.,
Lightning Bolt,
Bronski Beat,
Tom Boy,
Electric Prunes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Thee Headcoats,
Kenny Larkin,
FM Einheit,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Moby Grape,
Bauhaus,
Jawbox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bluetip,
Warsaw,
Skriet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unrelated Segments,
The J.B.'s,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lyres,
Urselle,
Blancmange,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dual Sessions,
Joyce Sims,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
48th St. Collective,
Don Cherry,
Kas Product,
Main Source,
Los Fastidios,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June of 44,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erykah Badu,
Animal Collective,
Fatback Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.