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 Panama and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Royal Trux to the funk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
The Tremeloes,
Slave,
Blake Baxter,
Cal Tjader,
Niagra,
Matthew Halsall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
Funkadelic,
Ultra Naté,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hashim,
Mo-Dettes,
The Buckinghams,
CMW,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Knickerbockers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Japan,
The Victims,
Pantytec,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonny Sharrock,
Ronan,
Neu!,
The Count Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Maleditus Sound,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bauhaus,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ponytail,
Fugazi,
Scratch Acid,
Porter Ricks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lalann,
Cluster,
Subhumans,
Yaz,
Don Cherry,
Mantronix,
John Coltrane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
T. Rex,
MDC,
The Doors,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.