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 Macedonia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Jandek to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABC,
Heaven 17,
The Doors,
Crime,
Easy Going,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
Khruangbin,
Dave Gahan,
Kas Product,
Sarah Menescal,
Flash Fearless,
Arcadia,
Fluxion,
Jeff Mills,
Kaleidoscope,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
Todd Rundgren,
Popol Vuh,
June of 44,
Lightning Bolt,
Robert Wyatt,
KRS-One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pagans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ornette Coleman,
Lindisfarne,
Eric Dolphy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bluetip,
Brick,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Funkadelic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Spoonie Gee,
LL Cool J,
Nick Fraelich,
The Birthday Party,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ice-T,
Max Romeo,
Guru Guru,
Negative Approach,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Whodini,
The Happenings,
Mantronix,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Erykah Badu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.