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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Brick to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
The Kinks,
Iggy Pop,
Aloha Tigers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
John Coltrane,
Sister Nancy,
Deadbeat,
Juan Atkins,
The Buckinghams,
Scion,
Interpol,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Andrew Hill,
Judy Mowatt,
KRS-One,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kaleidoscope,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aaron Thompson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wire,
Eurythmics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gang of Four,
Mission of Burma,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers,
Index,
Radiopuhelimet,
David Axelrod,
Reagan Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minny Pops,
the Germs,
Freddie Wadling,
Nico,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
K-Klass,
Soft Cell,
Ten City,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Funkadelic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gladiators,
Scott Walker,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Red Krayola,
Surgeon,
Echospace,
Magma,
Flash Fearless,
Marmalade,
Wally Richardson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fear,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.