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 Ivory Coast and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Andrew Hill to the jazz 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
Barbara Tucker,
This Heat,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Darondo,
David Axelrod,
Bill Wells,
Zero Boys,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Urselle,
EPMD,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Swans,
Funkadelic,
Buzzcocks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yellowson,
Ten City,
Fluxion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brick,
Das Ding,
The Sonics,
Bill Near,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Massinfluence,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
X-101,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
Inner City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Popol Vuh,
Eli Mardock,
Archie Shepp,
The Doobie Brothers,
James White and The Blacks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lou Reed,
Terrestrial Tones,
Shuggie Otis,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Offenders,
The Slits,
Porter Ricks,
Aswad,
The Happenings,
Cluster,
Grauzone,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.