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 Equatorial Guinea and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Crooked Eye to the techno 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Sherman,
The Skatalites,
The Barracudas,
Crash Course in Science,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Names,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Moss Icon,
Black Pus,
Ken Boothe,
Essential Logic,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Görl,
MC5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun Ra,
Sugar Minott,
The Walker Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Matthew Halsall,
Infiniti,
Harmonia,
Alice Coltrane,
Don Cherry,
F. McDonald,
Rotary Connection,
Shuggie Otis,
Pagans,
Von Mondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gong,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fad Gadget,
Mantronix,
Anakelly,
Monks,
The Fugs,
D'Angelo,
Henry Cow,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
The Young Rascals,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Funkadelic,
The Wake,
Soft Cell,
Yaz,
Bad Manners,
the Germs,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.