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 Singapore and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Quadrant to the funk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Zapp,
Babytalk,
Joensuu 1685,
Ultra Naté,
The Angels of Light,
Camberwell Now,
Ronnie Foster,
The Knickerbockers,
Adolescents,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sex Pistols,
Mandrill,
Essential Logic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Buckinghams,
R.M.O.,
Nas,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Pop Group,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sonic Youth,
Royal Trux,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bill Wells,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ohio Players,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cecil Taylor,
Man Parrish,
Lakeside,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick Morgan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stetsasonic,
Morten Harket,
Isaac Hayes,
Judy Mowatt,
The United States of America,
Liliput,
Organ,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joey Negro,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Halsall,
Von Mondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kas Product,
Urselle,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cybotron,
Cal Tjader,
Sparks,
Ken Boothe,
Suicide,
Susan Cadogan,
Bronski Beat,
Buzzcocks,
Procol Harum,
the Association,
Anthony Braxton,
Pantaleimon,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.