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 the UAE and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Machine,
Rekid,
Black Pus,
Rod Modell,
Yellowson,
Max Romeo,
The Knickerbockers,
Youth Brigade,
Dead Boys,
The Barracudas,
Minutemen,
Arcadia,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young,
ABC,
Outsiders,
Unrelated Segments,
The Electric Prunes,
World's Most,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Skatalites,
Deepchord,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Agent Orange,
Cecil Taylor,
Minny Pops,
Make Up,
Alton Ellis,
Ronan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Urselle,
Joe Finger,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Golliwogs,
Henry Cow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wally Richardson,
Swell Maps,
Easy Going,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fugazi,
Moebius,
The Tremeloes,
Kayak,
Marcia Griffiths,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Alice Coltrane,
LL Cool J,
Howard Jones,
John Holt,
The Trojans,
Black Bananas,
KRS-One,
The Gun Club,
Man Parrish,
Tears for Fears,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.