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 Liechtenstein and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 oboe 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 Symarip to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
L. Decosne,
Yusef Lateef,
Amazonics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Quadrant,
Tom Boy,
Pussy Galore,
The Grass Roots,
Crooked Eye,
Ronan,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Knickerbockers,
Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
MC5,
Marc Almond,
Cluster,
Excepter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Metal Thangz,
Young Marble Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
Whodini,
Talk Talk,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radio Birdman,
The Slackers,
Quantec,
Schoolly D,
Khruangbin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ken Boothe,
Eric Dolphy,
The United States of America,
The Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
The J.B.'s,
Soul Sonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minutemen,
Arthur Verocai,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cecil Taylor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dead Boys,
Wolf Eyes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eve St. Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Althea and Donna,
John Foxx,
Accadde A,
Susan Cadogan,
Neil Young,
Negative Approach,
Terry Callier,
Reuben Wilson,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.