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 Belize and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare 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 Eli Mardock to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Scientists,
Maurizio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lower 48,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sixth Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Durutti Column,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Erykah Badu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pussy Galore,
Jacob Miller,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anthony Braxton,
Lakeside,
The Fire Engines,
The Skatalites,
Warsaw,
The Cure,
Marc Almond,
Fluxion,
Mo-Dettes,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eve St. Jones,
Kenny Larkin,
Michelle Simonal,
Second Layer,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Jandek,
Camouflage,
Ohio Players,
Danielle Patucci,
Chris Corsano,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Golliwogs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Little Man,
The Gladiators,
Glenn Branca,
Alphaville,
Aswad,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Tommy Roe,
8 Eyed Spy,
Johnny Clarke,
Arab on Radar,
The Tremeloes,
The Buckinghams,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.