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 Czech Republic and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soul II Soul to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
The Gories,
Jeff Mills,
Roxette,
Pole,
Rakim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Yusef Lateef,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bauhaus,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ituana,
The Pretty Things,
Tim Buckley,
Sugar Minott,
Adolescents,
Funky Four + One,
Davy DMX,
Sister Nancy,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Livin' Joy,
The Neon Judgement,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
Essential Logic,
Hoover,
Graham Central Station,
Technova,
Deakin,
Brick,
Albert Ayler,
Bluetip,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
The Standells,
Mad Mike,
Todd Rundgren,
Gong,
Jawbox,
The Martian,
Altered Images,
Ornette Coleman,
Fela Kuti,
La Düsseldorf,
Simply Red,
Boredoms,
The Gun Club,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ten City,
Dorothy Ashby,
Masters at Work,
Cecil Taylor,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scan 7,
8 Eyed Spy,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.