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 Belgium and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gabor Szabo to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
This Heat,
Kurtis Blow,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Seeds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chris Corsano,
Blancmange,
Cecil Taylor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Juan Atkins,
The Selecter,
Jacques Brel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bad Manners,
Faust,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter and Kerry,
Ituana,
Anthony Braxton,
Mark Hollis,
La Düsseldorf,
The Searchers,
Bobby Byrd,
Rapeman,
Matthew Halsall,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moleskins,
The Gories,
Model 500,
Dennis Brown,
Outsiders,
Sixth Finger,
Buzzcocks,
The Raincoats,
Eric Copeland,
Neu!,
Thompson Twins,
Tomorrow,
DNA,
Q65,
The Saints,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Cymande,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gabor Szabo,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lyres,
Urselle,
R.M.O.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sound,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
X-Ray Spex,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soul II Soul,
Ultimate Spinach,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.