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 Eritrea and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Mojo Men to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Swans,
Y Pants,
The Smoke,
DJ Sneak,
Basic Channel,
The Toasters,
L. Decosne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Last Poets,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jacques Brel,
The Busters,
Kas Product,
Lyres,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Davy DMX,
Sight & Sound,
The Associates,
Toni Rubio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Trumans Water,
Section 25,
Subhumans,
F. McDonald,
Second Layer,
Radiohead,
Bill Near,
Neil Young,
Chrome,
Drive Like Jehu,
X-102,
Pierre Henry,
The Slackers,
The Music Machine,
Freddie Wadling,
Loose Ends,
K-Klass,
The Human League,
Q65,
The Move,
Skaos,
Negative Approach,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Groovy Waters,
Fatback Band,
D'Angelo,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantaleimon,
Mad Mike,
Lower 48,
John Holt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Silicon Teens,
Jerry Gold Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Joe Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
Das Ding,
Camberwell Now,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.