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 Ecuador and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sarah Menescal to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Fugazi,
Big Daddy Kane,
Max Romeo,
Ornette Coleman,
F. McDonald,
Eric Dolphy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mad Mike,
Nick Fraelich,
The Slackers,
Tim Buckley,
UT,
Q and Not U,
Cal Tjader,
the Bar-Kays,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rhythm & Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Technova,
Surgeon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
D'Angelo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bad Manners,
Siglo XX,
CMW,
Henry Cow,
Black Sheep,
The J.B.'s,
Brass Construction,
Procol Harum,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Graham Central Station,
Soft Machine,
The United States of America,
Dead Boys,
Arab on Radar,
The Modern Lovers,
Eve St. Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bluetip,
The Toasters,
The Trojans,
Chrome,
The Index,
Iggy Pop,
Lindisfarne,
Rakim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wolf Eyes,
Harmonia,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pole,
ABBA,
Piero Umiliani,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.