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 Montenegro and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ornette Coleman to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Jacob Miller,
Neil Young,
One Last Wish,
Cecil Taylor,
The Shadows of Knight,
Panda Bear,
Don Cherry,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Teasers,
Zero Boys,
Chris Corsano,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sixth Finger,
X-101,
Eli Mardock,
The Motions,
Dual Sessions,
David Axelrod,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tom Boy,
Soul II Soul,
Jeff Mills,
Wings,
Ultravox,
Colin Newman,
The Happenings,
Joe Finger,
The Moody Blues,
Amon Düül II,
Unrelated Segments,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Terry Callier,
Tears for Fears,
Marine Girls,
Excepter,
The Five Americans,
Ohio Players,
Monolake,
Second Layer,
The Wake,
Audionom,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Prunes,
Accadde A,
Theoretical Girls,
Tommy Roe,
Minor Threat,
Ludus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Residents,
Nico,
Hashim,
The Smoke,
Avey Tare,
Angry Samoans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grey Daturas,
Camberwell Now,
Juan Atkins,
Section 25,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.