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 Burundi and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Rekid to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Eric Copeland,
Q65,
Monolake,
Second Layer,
The Moody Blues,
PIL,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lindisfarne,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Trumans Water,
Brand Nubian,
Max Romeo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jawbox,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Skaos,
Duran Duran,
Davy DMX,
The Doors,
Steve Hackett,
Black Flag,
Letta Mbulu,
Reuben Wilson,
Juan Atkins,
Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lungfish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alice Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Outsiders,
Faust,
The Count Five,
Los Fastidios,
Wolf Eyes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Derrick Morgan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Modern Lovers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flipper,
Kayak,
CMW,
Roy Ayers,
The Gories,
Kenny Larkin,
The J.B.'s,
Sun City Girls,
The Motions,
OOIOO,
Cymande,
Cybotron,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.