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 Cameroon and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Lee Hazlewood to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
R.M.O.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Blossom Toes,
Kayak,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
Scrapy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sound Behaviour,
Technova,
Soul II Soul,
Don Cherry,
The Red Krayola,
The Seeds,
The Fugs,
Pole,
Hoover,
The Doobie Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arab on Radar,
Minutemen,
Brothers Johnson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Bourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
F. McDonald,
The Black Dice,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Wally Richardson,
Harpers Bizarre,
ABC,
Cecil Taylor,
Subhumans,
Zero Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gichy Dan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Peter and Kerry,
Rakim,
Nation of Ulysses,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
MDC,
X-101,
The Busters,
The Walker Brothers,
Scientists,
Organ,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Youth Brigade,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.