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 Bahamas and from Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Guru Guru,
Fluxion,
Minnie Riperton,
Bill Wells,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rotary Connection,
the Slits,
Donald Byrd,
Quadrant,
Easy Going,
Pharoah Sanders,
Michelle Simonal,
Sandy B,
Danielle Patucci,
Electric Prunes,
Ponytail,
Peter and Kerry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Vogues,
Fad Gadget,
the Fania All-Stars,
Public Enemy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Foxx,
Faraquet,
a-ha,
B.T. Express,
Mad Mike,
KRS-One,
Massinfluence,
The Happenings,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fugazi,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jesper Dahlback,
Silicon Teens,
Moebius,
The Martian,
Whodini,
Wings,
Kaleidoscope,
Frankie Knuckles,
Big Daddy Kane,
T.S.O.L.,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terry Callier,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Japan,
Pantaleimon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Wolf Eyes,
Mars,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.