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 Israel and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Isaac Hayes to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oblivians,
Fluxion,
Skriet,
Graham Central Station,
Robert Wyatt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Arcadia,
Sam Rivers,
Warsaw,
Negative Approach,
Grandmaster Flash,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
Soul II Soul,
Magma,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sonics,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fear,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
One Last Wish,
The Velvet Underground,
The Slackers,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Bill Wells,
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythm & Sound,
In Retrospect,
Animal Collective,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sight & Sound,
Los Fastidios,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sandy B,
Skarface,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eli Mardock,
Black Pus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aloha Tigers,
The Wake,
Yaz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Franke,
JFA,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hardrive,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Zapp,
Tres Demented,
Eve St. Jones,
Second Layer,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Blackbyrds,
Deepchord,
Shuggie Otis,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.