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 Benin and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Susan Cadogan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Franke,
Minny Pops,
Television Personalities,
Surgeon,
The Residents,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stereo Dub,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mandrill,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sun Ra,
Fatback Band,
Rites of Spring,
Blossom Toes,
Oblivians,
Stockholm Monsters,
Parry Music,
The Golliwogs,
Anakelly,
Fat Boys,
Piero Umiliani,
Quantec,
Lalann,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rufus Thomas,
Idris Muhammad,
Cal Tjader,
The Velvet Underground,
Intrusion,
John Cale,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
Glenn Branca,
Erykah Badu,
Charles Mingus,
Rosa Yemen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Searchers,
The Star Department,
Simply Red,
The Smiths,
Altered Images,
Colin Newman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter & Gordon,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Bad Manners,
Archie Shepp,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pulsallama,
Audionom,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wally Richardson,
The Neon Judgement,
Fela Kuti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.