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 Mexico 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Raincoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Drexciya,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Minutemen,
Blancmange,
Wally Richardson,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kayak,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Remains,
The Zeros,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ronan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roger Hodgson,
Suburban Knight,
Gang Starr,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ken Boothe,
Franke,
Television Personalities,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scrapy,
Ohio Players,
Jacob Miller,
Juan Atkins,
the Association,
Darondo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Monochrome Set,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delta 5,
Rufus Thomas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Move,
Roxy Music,
Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ultra Naté,
Aswad,
Marshall Jefferson,
New York Dolls,
Easy Going,
Brick,
Skarface,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Womack,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Stooges,
Joe Smooth,
Agitation Free,
AZ,
The Associates,
In Retrospect,
Section 25,
Camouflage,
The Dead C,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.