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 Bolivia and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Kas Product,
Metal Thangz,
Cameo,
Brick,
Connie Case,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Black Dice,
Massinfluence,
Nick Fraelich,
Brothers Johnson,
The Golliwogs,
Reagan Youth,
Sonic Youth,
Rosa Yemen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jandek,
Jeff Lynne,
Chris Corsano,
Terry Callier,
The Slackers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
June of 44,
Gerry Rafferty,
Danielle Patucci,
Max Romeo,
The Cure,
Thee Headcoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
a-ha,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mission of Burma,
Faraquet,
Sparks,
Wally Richardson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soul II Soul,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Saints,
The Associates,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Slits,
Amon Düül,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Idris Muhammad,
Saccharine Trust,
Country Teasers,
Swans,
Slick Rick,
Ohio Players,
Curtis Mayfield,
Section 25,
The Five Americans,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.