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 Switzerland and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Rotary Connection to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
L. Decosne,
The Fugs,
Bang On A Can,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Piero Umiliani,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Agent Orange,
Unwound,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chris Corsano,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lower 48,
The Last Poets,
Cybotron,
Idris Muhammad,
Pole,
D'Angelo,
Joe Smooth,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Cell,
Alice Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
Q and Not U,
The Dirtbombs,
Procol Harum,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick May,
Henry Cow,
Ten City,
Byron Stingily,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Josef K,
Sun Ra,
Morten Harket,
Soul II Soul,
Amon Düül,
The Star Department,
PIL,
La Düsseldorf,
This Heat,
Moss Icon,
Junior Murvin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Tom Boy,
Eli Mardock,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jandek,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.