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 Ecuador and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Warren Ellis to the jazz 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Skarface,
Sarah Menescal,
The Names,
The Techniques,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Monochrome Set,
The Mummies,
Gastr Del Sol,
Blake Baxter,
Fela Kuti,
Intrusion,
Jimmy McGriff,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cymande,
The Associates,
Beasts of Bourbon,
LL Cool J,
UT,
The Misunderstood,
The Pretty Things,
Y Pants,
Mandrill,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Johnny Clarke,
Roxette,
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Cale,
D'Angelo,
Desert Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
The Buckinghams,
Alton Ellis,
The Fall,
the Human League,
Ken Boothe,
Gang of Four,
Carl Craig,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Sherman,
Peter & Gordon,
World's Most,
Goldenarms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Chris Corsano,
Bizarre Inc.,
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
The Cure,
Groovy Waters,
Darondo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jeff Lynne,
John Coltrane,
Television,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aloha Tigers,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.