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 Ireland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Godley & Creme to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
H. Thieme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Patti Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
The Misunderstood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Laurel Aitken,
Ronan,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Desert Stars,
Gerry Rafferty,
A Certain Ratio,
Con Funk Shun,
China Crisis,
Arab on Radar,
The Zeros,
Television Personalities,
Charles Mingus,
Pagans,
Man Parrish,
10cc,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tommy Roe,
Camberwell Now,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
Adolescents,
X-102,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gastr Del Sol,
Underground Resistance,
Susan Cadogan,
Gong,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Can,
Max Romeo,
Kerri Chandler,
Qualms,
Technova,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Icehouse,
Pere Ubu,
Barbara Tucker,
Niagra,
K-Klass,
Isaac Hayes,
Roxette,
Connie Case,
Bang On A Can,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.