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 Turkmenistan and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the jazz 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Swans,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Leaves,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Joyce Sims,
The Slits,
Ludus,
Basic Channel,
Black Pus,
Reagan Youth,
Ituana,
Little Man,
Archie Shepp,
Bush Tetras,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tears for Fears,
The Knickerbockers,
Ohio Players,
Saccharine Trust,
John Foxx,
The Grass Roots,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
Pantytec,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos,
Y Pants,
Radiohead,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Babytalk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pulsallama,
Roxy Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
David McCallum,
The Raincoats,
The Mummies,
Warren Ellis,
ABC,
Prince Buster,
The Mojo Men,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun Ra,
Andrew Hill,
Ice-T,
Jerry's Kids,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Associates,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Japan,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.