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 Oman and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes 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 Absolute Body Control to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Dolphy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Adolescents,
Bluetip,
Echospace,
World's Most,
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stetsasonic,
cv313,
David McCallum,
Barry Ungar,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agitation Free,
Grey Daturas,
Sam Rivers,
MDC,
Groovy Waters,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fuzztones,
June of 44,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultra Naté,
The Slits,
The Moleskins,
This Heat,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
The Stooges,
Nick Fraelich,
Roy Ayers,
Porter Ricks,
Cecil Taylor,
Lightning Bolt,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Brothers Johnson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scan 7,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sandy B,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tres Demented,
Circle Jerks,
Don Cherry,
The American Breed,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joe Finger,
Kaleidoscope,
Warsaw,
Carl Craig,
Mandrill,
Alphaville,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yaz,
Mr. Review,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.