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 Liberia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 J.B.'s to the rap 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
The Sonics,
Monolake,
Derrick Morgan,
Michelle Simonal,
PIL,
Faust,
Erykah Badu,
Thee Headcoats,
Lakeside,
L. Decosne,
Faraquet,
Outsiders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nirvana,
Zero Boys,
Rapeman,
The Tremeloes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Maleditus Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
The Monks,
Pantaleimon,
Hardrive,
The Litter,
Niagra,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Foxx,
Minutemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
Byron Stingily,
Marine Girls,
Scott Walker,
Y Pants,
The Buckinghams,
Half Japanese,
Banda Bassotti,
Blake Baxter,
Lightning Bolt,
Motorama,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wally Richardson,
Isaac Hayes,
Jandek,
Dennis Brown,
The Durutti Column,
Massinfluence,
Don Cherry,
Barry Ungar,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soft Cell,
Rekid,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Electric Prunes,
Make Up,
The Knickerbockers,
Livin' Joy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.