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 Canada and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Residents 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Todd Rundgren,
Sonic Youth,
The Remains,
Rod Modell,
Rites of Spring,
Public Enemy,
Black Pus,
The New Christs,
Cheater Slicks,
The Moleskins,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Motions,
The Associates,
Nils Olav,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Qualms,
Khruangbin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Normal,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jawbox,
Skaos,
Cymande,
Crime,
Toni Rubio,
Janne Schatter,
Deakin,
Jacob Miller,
T.S.O.L.,
Mission of Burma,
Inner City,
The Leaves,
Popol Vuh,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Connie Case,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brothers Johnson,
Moss Icon,
Bill Wells,
The Smoke,
Magma,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young,
The Slits,
Roy Ayers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Seeds,
Half Japanese,
The Black Dice,
Parry Music,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Bourne,
The Offenders,
Boredoms,
The Birthday Party,
Lightning Bolt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.