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 Chad and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare 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 Aswad 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Radiohead,
Ornette Coleman,
Altered Images,
Saccharine Trust,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kenny Larkin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zapp,
John Holt,
Dual Sessions,
Derrick Morgan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sixth Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Anthony Braxton,
The Real Kids,
Parry Music,
Chris & Cosey,
Scan 7,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nation of Ulysses,
La Düsseldorf,
Mary Jane Girls,
DNA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Moody Blues,
The Kinks,
Sugar Minott,
OOIOO,
Con Funk Shun,
The Star Department,
T.S.O.L.,
The Doors,
The Golliwogs,
Byron Stingily,
In Retrospect,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bauhaus,
The Skatalites,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Modern Lovers,
Theoretical Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
Idris Muhammad,
The Invisible,
Arcadia,
Junior Murvin,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter & Gordon,
Barrington Levy,
L. Decosne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stockholm Monsters,
Anakelly,
Niagra,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.