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 Lesotho and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brothers Johnson,
Eden Ahbez,
Harmonia,
Minutemen,
Scrapy,
The Techniques,
Q and Not U,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Minny Pops,
Ossler,
the Association,
Drexciya,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gap Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Massinfluence,
Pole,
The Birthday Party,
Black Moon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sugar Minott,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Symarip,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Christie,
Godley & Creme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Motions,
The Music Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Can,
Shoche,
Ultimate Spinach,
Moebius,
Idris Muhammad,
Kas Product,
Matthew Halsall,
The Stooges,
Black Pus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pere Ubu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
Pantytec,
Arthur Verocai,
Magma,
Chrome,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
AZ,
Sexual Harrassment,
Trumans Water,
Pulsallama,
Sam Rivers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.