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 Nicaragua and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ronan to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Shadows of Knight,
Severed Heads,
Parry Music,
Dorothy Ashby,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wings,
Piero Umiliani,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cheater Slicks,
Index,
Eric Copeland,
Accadde A,
Liliput,
Ken Boothe,
Nico,
Ponytail,
Soul Sonic Force,
Al Stewart,
Mission of Burma,
Althea and Donna,
Technova,
Wolf Eyes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roy Ayers,
The Stooges,
The Remains,
Nas,
Laurel Aitken,
Eve St. Jones,
The American Breed,
Goldenarms,
Sällskapet,
Deepchord,
Country Teasers,
The Happenings,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reagan Youth,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
Brass Construction,
OOIOO,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rekid,
Fugazi,
The Martian,
Steve Hackett,
The Monks,
Dual Sessions,
Mo-Dettes,
The Zeros,
Andrew Hill,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.