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 Armenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Lyres,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Underground Resistance,
The Searchers,
Piero Umiliani,
The Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Basic Channel,
Altered Images,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Fat Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Technova,
Joe Finger,
Kas Product,
Sparks,
Michelle Simonal,
The Names,
Flash Fearless,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fugazi,
Black Pus,
Niagra,
Mark Hollis,
Sound Behaviour,
Q and Not U,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
L. Decosne,
The Dirtbombs,
Can,
The Black Dice,
Organ,
Nils Olav,
The Gap Band,
the Association,
Magazine,
Roy Ayers,
Hasil Adkins,
Davy DMX,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
Glenn Branca,
Susan Cadogan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pantaleimon,
Mission of Burma,
Subhumans,
Drive Like Jehu,
Masters at Work,
Fluxion,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.