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 Grenada and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the electroclash 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Accadde A,
Kenny Larkin,
La Düsseldorf,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Main Source,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cameo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scan 7,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dark Day,
X-101,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scientists,
Lucky Dragons,
Carl Craig,
Zero Boys,
Eve St. Jones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aural Exciters,
The Skatalites,
Deepchord,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Spoonie Gee,
Todd Terry,
Ultra Naté,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dirtbombs,
Nirvana,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Arthur Verocai,
ABC,
Reagan Youth,
Intrusion,
Half Japanese,
Negative Approach,
Joensuu 1685,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Colin Newman,
The Mojo Men,
Brass Construction,
Janne Schatter,
Saccharine Trust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fat Boys,
Bob Dylan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Letta Mbulu,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
The Divine Comedy,
Rotary Connection,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
The Slits,
Sparks,
Kaleidoscope,
The Associates,
Rites of Spring,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.