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 Burundi and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Youth Brigade to the funk 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Bang On A Can,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wally Richardson,
Judy Mowatt,
Sight & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Tres Demented,
Donny Hathaway,
Sixth Finger,
The Motions,
Saccharine Trust,
Anthony Braxton,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Axelrod,
Nick Fraelich,
Sonic Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Deakin,
Audionom,
Frankie Knuckles,
Shoche,
Oblivians,
Don Cherry,
EPMD,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Danielle Patucci,
The Tremeloes,
Black Sheep,
The Blackbyrds,
Crash Course in Science,
Echospace,
T. Rex,
Ten City,
Animal Collective,
Khruangbin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABC,
Hashim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rosa Yemen,
Stiv Bators,
Michelle Simonal,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
Panda Bear,
The Grass Roots,
The Young Rascals,
Bootsy Collins,
MC5,
Roxette,
Spoonie Gee,
Cymande,
Eli Mardock,
Rotary Connection,
The Doobie Brothers,
LL Cool J,
E-Dancer,
The Raincoats,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.