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 Suriname and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 clarinet 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 Idris Muhammad 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fuzztones,
Technova,
Godley & Creme,
Quadrant,
Urselle,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Magma,
Fear,
Boredoms,
Lightning Bolt,
Y Pants,
Scrapy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
cv313,
Roger Hodgson,
Jeff Lynne,
New Order,
Banda Bassotti,
Bootsy Collins,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Derrick May,
Jeff Mills,
AZ,
Lungfish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skaos,
Toni Rubio,
Minor Threat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lee Hazlewood,
Japan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Vladislav Delay,
Franke,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Flag,
Sarah Menescal,
The J.B.'s,
Warren Ellis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dennis Brown,
Faraquet,
Deepchord,
James White and The Blacks,
Motorama,
The Flesh Eaters,
Adolescents,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sandy B,
The Standells,
The Sonics,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Monolake,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.