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 Belarus and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Tremeloes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
MC5,
China Crisis,
Black Sheep,
D'Angelo,
The Cowsills,
Grey Daturas,
Spandau Ballet,
kango's stein massive,
Lalann,
Cybotron,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick May,
The Residents,
Jerry's Kids,
Joe Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Sun City Girls,
The Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
Eric Dolphy,
Sällskapet,
Joe Finger,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Negative Approach,
Rufus Thomas,
The Velvet Underground,
Organ,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mandrill,
Soul II Soul,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
Blancmange,
Dawn Penn,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Byrd,
Skaos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
Grandmaster Flash,
Godley & Creme,
Ronan,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiohead,
Sonic Youth,
the Association,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.