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 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Television,
Hasil Adkins,
Ice-T,
Joe Finger,
Accadde A,
Ronan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Von Mondo,
The Cowsills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
Oneida,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funkadelic,
The Golliwogs,
Colin Newman,
The Leaves,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Skatalites,
Nas,
Duran Duran,
The Motions,
Sex Pistols,
Little Man,
The Music Machine,
Flipper,
Gabor Szabo,
a-ha,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barrington Levy,
Qualms,
The Blackbyrds,
Brand Nubian,
Youth Brigade,
Guru Guru,
Gang of Four,
Suburban Knight,
Marvin Gaye,
Wire,
Moebius,
Sugar Minott,
Bad Manners,
Young Marble Giants,
Unwound,
Loose Ends,
Kool Moe Dee,
Toni Rubio,
Jimmy McGriff,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Make Up,
Aural Exciters,
Rufus Thomas,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bush Tetras,
Joyce Sims,
Pantytec,
The Star Department,
cv313,
The Sound,
Japan,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.