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 Turkey and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Oblivians to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Talk Talk,
Deadbeat,
Guru Guru,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gories,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ken Boothe,
Nik Kershaw,
H. Thieme,
Aloha Tigers,
Vainqueur,
The Martian,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rakim,
The Blackbyrds,
cv313,
Shoche,
Joe Smooth,
Lyres,
Sugar Minott,
The Moody Blues,
The Cure,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Loose Ends,
Cecil Taylor,
The Barracudas,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Mills,
Arcadia,
Kool Moe Dee,
Roy Ayers,
Erykah Badu,
Fat Boys,
Buzzcocks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blancmange,
Faraquet,
a-ha,
CMW,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Surgeon,
Skarface,
Adolescents,
Eurythmics,
FM Einheit,
Davy DMX,
The Sonics,
Connie Case,
Porter Ricks,
Main Source,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Basic Channel,
Danielle Patucci,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
Clear Light,
Carl Craig,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sarah Menescal,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.