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 Tanzania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Gang of Four to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
David McCallum,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
The Last Poets,
Drexciya,
LL Cool J,
Colin Newman,
The Litter,
Rakim,
Nils Olav,
Zapp,
Anakelly,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Gun Club,
Stiv Bators,
Jacques Brel,
the Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
Lalann,
Cal Tjader,
Amazonics,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fuzztones,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tommy Roe,
Johnny Clarke,
Little Man,
Sun Ra,
Tears for Fears,
Malaria!,
Skaos,
Jandek,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agitation Free,
Kenny Larkin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quadrant,
Youth Brigade,
The Barracudas,
The Invisible,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Television,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Count Five,
Juan Atkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cheater Slicks,
Organ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Junior Murvin,
Technova,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy Collins,
Rufus Thomas,
Visage,
Nico,
Monolake,
Heaven 17,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.