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 Latvia and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sugar Minott,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultra Naté,
Basic Channel,
Cal Tjader,
Max Romeo,
Brothers Johnson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fugs,
The Index,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Music Machine,
Monolake,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
Suburban Knight,
Slick Rick,
The Cure,
Jacques Brel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marvin Gaye,
Peter & Gordon,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eddi Front,
Camouflage,
Suicide,
Boredoms,
Sam Rivers,
Das Ding,
Easy Going,
Amazonics,
Minor Threat,
The Star Department,
Letta Mbulu,
Moby Grape,
Little Man,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mandrill,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Massinfluence,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roxy Music,
Joy Division,
Lungfish,
The Motions,
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.