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 Peru and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soft Machine to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Public Enemy,
Black Bananas,
Jeff Mills,
The Raincoats,
ABC,
Soft Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Walker Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
Steve Hackett,
Surgeon,
Cecil Taylor,
Zapp,
the Fania All-Stars,
Alison Limerick,
Nick Fraelich,
Lucky Dragons,
Animal Collective,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
The Birthday Party,
CMW,
Pulsallama,
The Shadows of Knight,
Piero Umiliani,
Matthew Bourne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erasure,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Gladiators,
Duran Duran,
Lou Reed,
Niagra,
Kenny Larkin,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Sonics,
Depeche Mode,
Average White Band,
Kas Product,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-102,
Chris Corsano,
Second Layer,
Tubeway Army,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Negative Approach,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Womack,
The Music Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aloha Tigers,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.