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 Uruguay and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba 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 Altered Images to the electroclash 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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
The Gladiators,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
cv313,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radio Birdman,
The Move,
Shoche,
Jeff Mills,
Skaos,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris & Cosey,
Hoover,
Eurythmics,
Leonard Cohen,
Aaron Thompson,
The Searchers,
One Last Wish,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fuzztones,
Tim Buckley,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soft Machine,
Neu!,
Vladislav Delay,
The Buckinghams,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ituana,
Basic Channel,
Scion,
Gichy Dan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Deadbeat,
Lakeside,
The Smoke,
Radiohead,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pierre Henry,
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Age Steppers,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris Corsano,
T. Rex,
Fluxion,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Yazoo,
The Five Americans,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.