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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Happenings to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
The Music Machine,
Sun Ra,
Royal Trux,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Toni Rubio,
Shuggie Otis,
Marvin Gaye,
Ronnie Foster,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Animal Collective,
The Motions,
Circle Jerks,
Alton Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Fugazi,
Wings,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
John Foxx,
Roxette,
Joy Division,
Marmalade,
Cal Tjader,
Letta Mbulu,
Grey Daturas,
Pagans,
Glenn Branca,
Black Pus,
The Toasters,
Make Up,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Second Layer,
Soft Machine,
Jandek,
Ludus,
The Neon Judgement,
The Index,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delta 5,
The Gap Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neu!,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerrie Biddell,
A Certain Ratio,
June Days,
Lalo Schifrin,
Michelle Simonal,
Blancmange,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
EPMD,
China Crisis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nik Kershaw,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.