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 Fiji and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Reagan Youth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deadbeat,
Boogie Down Productions,
This Heat,
Blossom Toes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Carl Craig,
OOIOO,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cramps,
Television,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Peter & Gordon,
Jacob Miller,
The Gap Band,
Negative Approach,
Derrick May,
Brothers Johnson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Moby Grape,
10cc,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sixth Finger,
Easy Going,
Interpol,
The Star Department,
JFA,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Sound,
Glenn Branca,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
the Bar-Kays,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Alphaville,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Qualms,
Graham Central Station,
Masters at Work,
Groovy Waters,
Bang On A Can,
Josef K,
The Fugs,
Parry Music,
David Axelrod,
Faraquet,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Angels of Light,
Arab on Radar,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
The Blues Magoos,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aural Exciters,
Ornette Coleman,
Mandrill,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.