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 Estonia and from Paris.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Evens to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Sugar Minott,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
The Mummies,
David McCallum,
The Searchers,
Can,
In Retrospect,
H. Thieme,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rakim,
Severed Heads,
Rotary Connection,
Ossler,
Bang On A Can,
China Crisis,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Laurel Aitken,
Underground Resistance,
The Five Americans,
JFA,
T. Rex,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
This Heat,
Lou Christie,
Tomorrow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Marine Girls,
The Litter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sandy B,
Altered Images,
Bobby Byrd,
Al Stewart,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonny Sharrock,
Boredoms,
Sound Behaviour,
B.T. Express,
Drexciya,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Music Machine,
Fugazi,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amazonics,
Brass Construction,
Quantec,
The Divine Comedy,
The Angels of Light,
The Blues Magoos,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wire,
Ponytail,
The Trojans,
The Electric Prunes,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.