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 Lebanon and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Q and Not U to the punk 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Hardrive,
Big Daddy Kane,
New Age Steppers,
Isaac Hayes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doobie Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Youth Brigade,
Mission of Burma,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fire Engines,
Minor Threat,
Main Source,
New Order,
The Remains,
Simply Red,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heaven 17,
The Birthday Party,
The Cowsills,
Faraquet,
Massinfluence,
OOIOO,
Minnie Riperton,
Liliput,
The J.B.'s,
U.S. Maple,
The Last Poets,
Derrick Morgan,
Pulsallama,
Flipper,
June of 44,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear,
Terry Callier,
Sonic Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Vogues,
The Gories,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Sherman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ice-T,
Interpol,
the Sonics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blossom Toes,
Mandrill,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Anakelly,
Charles Mingus,
Pussy Galore,
Franke,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
Television Personalities,
Barrington Levy,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.