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 South Sudan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the funk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Kerri Chandler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
Newcleus,
Pantytec,
Yazoo,
Aswad,
Tomorrow,
The Grass Roots,
Minor Threat,
Vladislav Delay,
Vainqueur,
Scott Walker,
Blancmange,
Con Funk Shun,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grauzone,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lower 48,
Bizarre Inc.,
Silicon Teens,
The Dave Clark Five,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neil Young,
Max Romeo,
the Swans,
Hot Snakes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roy Ayers,
Television,
The Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
The Martian,
Porter Ricks,
Rotary Connection,
Judy Mowatt,
Connie Case,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Motorama,
R.M.O.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sound Behaviour,
Arthur Verocai,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fuzztones,
Khruangbin,
The New Christs,
Rakim,
Pulsallama,
Jacob Miller,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Infiniti,
Idris Muhammad,
Rites of Spring,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.