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 Korea North and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Barrington Levy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Alton Ellis,
Sonic Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
Hoover,
Fugazi,
Desert Stars,
David McCallum,
Fela Kuti,
The Motions,
Gichy Dan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Beau Brummels,
The Trojans,
the Bar-Kays,
Marmalade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Babytalk,
Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Intrusion,
Aural Exciters,
Cluster,
Massinfluence,
Swans,
a-ha,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Finger,
Nirvana,
Matthew Halsall,
Hot Snakes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Cal Tjader,
FM Einheit,
The Sound,
Chrome,
The Fortunes,
Leonard Cohen,
World's Most,
Underground Resistance,
This Heat,
John Cale,
ABBA,
Section 25,
X-102,
the Fania All-Stars,
Matthew Bourne,
the Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABC,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang Green,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.