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 Suriname and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Trumans Water,
Barry Ungar,
Los Fastidios,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Alice Coltrane,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amazonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Smog,
T. Rex,
Sound Behaviour,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Adolescents,
Lakeside,
Gang of Four,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Mummies,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare,
Marine Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Dark Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rotary Connection,
CMW,
Minnie Riperton,
The Dave Clark Five,
Agent Orange,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mo-Dettes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Modern Lovers,
Ohio Players,
Tubeway Army,
Skaos,
Radio Birdman,
The Fortunes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Susan Cadogan,
Kerri Chandler,
Carl Craig,
Iggy Pop,
Brothers Johnson,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rosa Yemen,
Arab on Radar,
Black Bananas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stetsasonic,
Nik Kershaw,
Quantec,
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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.