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 Iraq and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 EPMD to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
The Monochrome Set,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
X-101,
Unrelated Segments,
The Divine Comedy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Saints,
Banda Bassotti,
Wolf Eyes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agitation Free,
Crispy Ambulance,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fortunes,
JFA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Flesh Eaters,
Black Moon,
Subhumans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
cv313,
Amon Düül,
Scratch Acid,
Index,
Maleditus Sound,
David Axelrod,
Pantaleimon,
Blake Baxter,
Urselle,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Association,
Excepter,
Magma,
Pere Ubu,
Circle Jerks,
The New Christs,
The Residents,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nico,
Guru Guru,
Minny Pops,
The Busters,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cure,
Flipper,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Bar-Kays,
Flamin' Groovies,
Anakelly,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New Age Steppers,
48th St. Collective,
Unwound,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.