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 Guyana and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the disco 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Chris Corsano,
Monks,
Alton Ellis,
John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Cure,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
U.S. Maple,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Human League,
Quantec,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bauhaus,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Wake,
Joy Division,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jandek,
Bill Near,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rites of Spring,
Country Teasers,
June of 44,
John Coltrane,
Rufus Thomas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barrington Levy,
Zapp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Todd Rundgren,
Groovy Waters,
Eric Copeland,
Graham Central Station,
Donald Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
Outsiders,
The Moody Blues,
K-Klass,
Infiniti,
Erykah Badu,
Amon Düül,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gories,
Slick Rick,
The Beau Brummels,
Underground Resistance,
Camouflage,
Minor Threat,
The Fugs,
PIL,
Excepter,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.