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 Solomon Islands and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Crispian St. Peters to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Subhumans,
The Music Machine,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pantytec,
Can,
Yazoo,
Gregory Isaacs,
10cc,
Scan 7,
Zapp,
Aural Exciters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Y Pants,
Terry Callier,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ronnie Foster,
Porter Ricks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minny Pops,
a-ha,
Basic Channel,
L. Decosne,
The Star Department,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Velvet Underground,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Names,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ohio Players,
Los Fastidios,
Scientists,
This Heat,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Amon Düül II,
Aaron Thompson,
Patti Smith,
Second Layer,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy Collins,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Japan,
David McCallum,
The Wake,
Mars,
The Busters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eli Mardock,
Rhythm & Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scion,
Reuben Wilson,
Rosa Yemen,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.