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 Korea South and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba 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 Moleskins to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Kas Product,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pantytec,
Reuben Wilson,
Popol Vuh,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
China Crisis,
Urselle,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alton Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
Royal Trux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Donald Byrd,
The Doors,
Bush Tetras,
The Moleskins,
Khruangbin,
Average White Band,
The Red Krayola,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dual Sessions,
One Last Wish,
Carl Craig,
Janne Schatter,
Television Personalities,
Pantaleimon,
Brothers Johnson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobby Byrd,
Soulsonic Force,
Masters at Work,
Crime,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fall,
Boz Scaggs,
Mars,
Sexual Harrassment,
Zero Boys,
The Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spoonie Gee,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mr. Review,
Das Ding,
Vladislav Delay,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thee Headcoats,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Velvet Underground,
Japan,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.