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 Gabon and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the grunge 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
In Retrospect,
E-Dancer,
Todd Rundgren,
T. Rex,
DJ Sneak,
Tomorrow,
The United States of America,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Organ,
Barbara Tucker,
Depeche Mode,
Spoonie Gee,
Von Mondo,
Henry Cow,
The Star Department,
Avey Tare,
Dark Day,
Vainqueur,
Amon Düül II,
X-Ray Spex,
Pussy Galore,
Rakim,
Electric Prunes,
Trumans Water,
The Durutti Column,
The Offenders,
Anakelly,
Shuggie Otis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sugar Minott,
The Shadows of Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slick Rick,
the Germs,
T.S.O.L.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cal Tjader,
The Mummies,
Marvin Gaye,
Underground Resistance,
The Trojans,
Rhythm & Sound,
LL Cool J,
The Blackbyrds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-101,
The Move,
Reagan Youth,
Marine Girls,
Wally Richardson,
EPMD,
June of 44,
Alice Coltrane,
Maurizio,
Sister Nancy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
MDC,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.