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 Australia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 EPMD to the disco 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Animal Collective,
Leonard Cohen,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aloha Tigers,
The Dead C,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
The Star Department,
The Victims,
Eric Dolphy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DJ Sneak,
Black Moon,
Joyce Sims,
Mo-Dettes,
Can,
Lou Christie,
Henry Cow,
Procol Harum,
Franke,
Neu!,
World's Most,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ohio Players,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skaos,
Bang On A Can,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Reed,
Echospace,
Section 25,
Pussy Galore,
Rotary Connection,
Cheater Slicks,
Groovy Waters,
Mr. Review,
John Lydon,
Half Japanese,
Moby Grape,
cv313,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Music Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sandy B,
Pierre Henry,
Susan Cadogan,
L. Decosne,
The Residents,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Panda Bear,
Byron Stingily,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.