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 Cyprus and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Jesper Dahlback to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Don Cherry,
Hardrive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Loose Ends,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Buckinghams,
Anthony Braxton,
John Cale,
Godley & Creme,
Cymande,
Soulsonic Force,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Blancmange,
Q65,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
June of 44,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unrelated Segments,
Pylon,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
Flipper,
X-Ray Spex,
The Litter,
Tears for Fears,
The Real Kids,
Silicon Teens,
Jandek,
Grauzone,
the Swans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Judy Mowatt,
Connie Case,
Kerrie Biddell,
Drexciya,
Letta Mbulu,
Sister Nancy,
Pole,
Lower 48,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tres Demented,
The Black Dice,
This Heat,
Gong,
Andrew Hill,
Swell Maps,
Con Funk Shun,
Soul Sonic Force,
Idris Muhammad,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.