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 Somalia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Roxy Music to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Masters at Work,
Kayak,
Section 25,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Busters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sonics,
Harmonia,
The Velvet Underground,
Michelle Simonal,
The Monochrome Set,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Ice-T,
Theoretical Girls,
Franke,
New Order,
Don Cherry,
Skaos,
The Move,
Parry Music,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Associates,
Yazoo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gladiators,
Oblivians,
Suburban Knight,
Joe Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Prince Buster,
Los Fastidios,
Aaron Thompson,
Barry Ungar,
the Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rosa Yemen,
Icehouse,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shuggie Otis,
Bill Near,
Minnie Riperton,
Yaz,
Organ,
Joy Division,
Thee Headcoats,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Sonic Youth,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Christie,
The Victims,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.