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 Macedonia and from London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Wake to the crunk 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Henry Cow,
Animal Collective,
a-ha,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacob Miller,
The Fall,
the Sonics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Public Enemy,
The Slackers,
Kurtis Blow,
Soulsonic Force,
Harmonia,
Masters at Work,
Inner City,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Skatalites,
The Misunderstood,
The United States of America,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deakin,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Blossom Toes,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Mojo Men,
Second Layer,
Roxy Music,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stiv Bators,
The Searchers,
Livin' Joy,
Dennis Brown,
Electric Prunes,
The Happenings,
Anthony Braxton,
Joey Negro,
The New Christs,
Nation of Ulysses,
10cc,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bad Manners,
China Crisis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Young Rascals,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Organ,
Wasted Youth,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Japan,
Jeff Mills,
Kas Product,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.