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 Nigeria and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hardrive,
The American Breed,
Faust,
The Tremeloes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maleditus Sound,
Zero Boys,
The Dirtbombs,
Nirvana,
Section 25,
Model 500,
Essential Logic,
Von Mondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Sound Behaviour,
Rakim,
New Order,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger,
Rites of Spring,
Bob Dylan,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smiths,
Glenn Branca,
The Fuzztones,
Al Stewart,
Swans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronan,
The Skatalites,
Kaleidoscope,
Chrome,
Minny Pops,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magma,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kurtis Blow,
Deepchord,
Leonard Cohen,
Sugar Minott,
the Sonics,
Skarface,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pantaleimon,
The Move,
Ralphi Rosario,
Absolute Body Control,
In Retrospect,
Ludus,
EPMD,
Suicide,
The Smoke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Amon Düül II,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.