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 Turkmenistan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gabor Szabo,
Trumans Water,
The Fortunes,
UT,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Wyatt,
Harmonia,
Negative Approach,
Isaac Hayes,
Eurythmics,
Scientists,
Mandrill,
Brass Construction,
Godley & Creme,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Sherman,
Los Fastidios,
The Fugs,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mojo Men,
Aaron Thompson,
Barbara Tucker,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronnie Foster,
Make Up,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Sound,
MC5,
The Index,
Desert Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skaos,
Derrick Morgan,
Yaz,
Newcleus,
Aural Exciters,
Faraquet,
Kayak,
Goldenarms,
AZ,
Siglo XX,
Reuben Wilson,
New Order,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
PIL,
Magazine,
The Toasters,
JFA,
Bob Dylan,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.