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 Greece and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Gichy Dan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Joey Negro,
Thompson Twins,
Smog,
Yusef Lateef,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bluetip,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Moss Icon,
Kayak,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rotary Connection,
Brothers Johnson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacques Brel,
Clear Light,
cv313,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cheater Slicks,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
AZ,
Max Romeo,
Supertramp,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Lou Reed,
Deepchord,
Juan Atkins,
Inner City,
FM Einheit,
Danielle Patucci,
Model 500,
Ash Ra Tempel,
U.S. Maple,
Delta 5,
Television Personalities,
Liliput,
The Associates,
Marcia Griffiths,
48th St. Collective,
Porter Ricks,
Terry Callier,
the Sonics,
Crooked Eye,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
Ohio Players,
Easy Going,
PIL,
Sällskapet,
Harmonia,
the Bar-Kays,
The Skatalites,
Ultimate Spinach,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
L. Decosne,
Morten Harket,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.