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 Syria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kurtis Blow to the grime 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
The Wake,
Cheater Slicks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Soft Cell,
CMW,
Kerri Chandler,
Amon Düül II,
The Doors,
The Victims,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soulsonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Young Marble Giants,
Steve Hackett,
Procol Harum,
Idris Muhammad,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fuzztones,
Eli Mardock,
Darondo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Dirtbombs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Organ,
Eric Dolphy,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bluetip,
Cybotron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Amon Düül,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalann,
Lower 48,
Al Stewart,
Trumans Water,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Slackers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Grauzone,
Joensuu 1685,
D'Angelo,
Agitation Free,
Joyce Sims,
a-ha,
Neil Young,
H. Thieme,
Hot Snakes,
Donald Byrd,
Morten Harket,
Depeche Mode,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gong,
Basic Channel,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.