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 Serbia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 ABBA to the jazz 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
Roxette,
X-102,
Toni Rubio,
Hoover,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Star Department,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Q and Not U,
The Music Machine,
Reuben Wilson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Animal Collective,
Blake Baxter,
the Fania All-Stars,
Talk Talk,
Darondo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harmonia,
Black Flag,
The Last Poets,
The Birthday Party,
MC5,
The Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
Lucky Dragons,
Moby Grape,
Tom Boy,
Flipper,
Erykah Badu,
Tommy Roe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
Aloha Tigers,
Minutemen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Wolf Eyes,
Soulsonic Force,
Suicide,
Patti Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Jawbox,
Jacques Brel,
Dead Boys,
Neu!,
Saccharine Trust,
Alison Limerick,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crash Course in Science,
Brass Construction,
8 Eyed Spy,
Johnny Osbourne,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.