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 Vietnam and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
AZ,
Pere Ubu,
Audionom,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Mojo Men,
Can,
Dawn Penn,
The Skatalites,
World's Most,
Chris Corsano,
Flamin' Groovies,
Intrusion,
Delon & Dalcan,
Little Man,
Scrapy,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Hill,
Ohio Players,
Oneida,
Ultra Naté,
Underground Resistance,
Desert Stars,
Ice-T,
New York Dolls,
The Fall,
Mark Hollis,
The Five Americans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mad Mike,
Sarah Menescal,
Basic Channel,
The Electric Prunes,
Charles Mingus,
The Martian,
KRS-One,
The Sonics,
The Dead C,
The Count Five,
Pulsallama,
Index,
Gang Gang Dance,
Massinfluence,
Sister Nancy,
The Blackbyrds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lower 48,
Eric Dolphy,
Nik Kershaw,
Make Up,
Infiniti,
Pole,
MDC,
Cymande,
Q and Not U,
Minor Threat,
Minnie Riperton,
Unrelated Segments,
Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.