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 Gabon and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Essential Logic to the dance 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
Simply Red,
Make Up,
Zero Boys,
Mars,
Archie Shepp,
Silicon Teens,
T. Rex,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chrome,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Albert Ayler,
Anthony Braxton,
Depeche Mode,
Motorama,
Chris Corsano,
The Divine Comedy,
Ponytail,
Prince Buster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Barracudas,
Ohio Players,
Roxy Music,
Hardrive,
Davy DMX,
AZ,
Quadrant,
Piero Umiliani,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Association,
The Fire Engines,
Rapeman,
Sound Behaviour,
Dark Day,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crispian St. Peters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soft Cell,
The Sonics,
Maurizio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Half Japanese,
Pylon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Circle Jerks,
Fluxion,
Buzzcocks,
Moss Icon,
Swans,
Flipper,
James White and The Blacks,
The Pretty Things,
Connie Case,
Blake Baxter,
Pantytec,
Kerri Chandler,
Mr. Review,
Siglo XX,
Goldenarms,
Heaven 17,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.