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 Vanuatu and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pantytec to the grunge 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Brand Nubian,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
Rotary Connection,
Excepter,
Country Teasers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Susan Cadogan,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Barrington Levy,
Motorama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Can,
Electric Prunes,
Arab on Radar,
Reagan Youth,
The Shadows of Knight,
New Age Steppers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warren Ellis,
Camouflage,
The Cure,
Marine Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Scratch Acid,
Robert Wyatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scientists,
K-Klass,
Von Mondo,
Amazonics,
Wasted Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Knickerbockers,
Swell Maps,
Sandy B,
U.S. Maple,
Bob Dylan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bronski Beat,
E-Dancer,
A Certain Ratio,
The Barracudas,
Leonard Cohen,
Babytalk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minor Threat,
Ten City,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Echospace,
Q and Not U,
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.