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 Iceland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Pussy Galore to the funk 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 American Breed. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
The Star Department,
Kerri Chandler,
Skriet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Carl Craig,
Donald Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Adolescents,
Traffic Nightmare,
New Age Steppers,
R.M.O.,
Jerry's Kids,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Glenn Branca,
Quadrant,
Gong,
Janne Schatter,
Barry Ungar,
Kurtis Blow,
The Music Machine,
David Bowie,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bauhaus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
L. Decosne,
Anthony Braxton,
The Raincoats,
The Associates,
The Dead C,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minor Threat,
The New Christs,
The Wake,
The Kinks,
Prince Buster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
Lalo Schifrin,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul II Soul,
Minny Pops,
Chris Corsano,
Shoche,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flipper,
Pussy Galore,
The Human League,
Arab on Radar,
the Normal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Smog,
Zero Boys,
Public Enemy,
Sparks,
Wally Richardson,
The Fall,
AZ,
Eden Ahbez,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.