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 Jordan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Country Teasers to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Black Bananas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Trojans,
Pagans,
Lindisfarne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Byrd,
DNA,
The Electric Prunes,
Masters at Work,
Stockholm Monsters,
Avey Tare,
Roxy Music,
Saccharine Trust,
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Eden Ahbez,
Jeff Mills,
the Swans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Deepchord,
Cameo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tubeway Army,
Easy Going,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Nirvana,
Matthew Bourne,
Chrome,
The Searchers,
The Human League,
Magma,
OOIOO,
Isaac Hayes,
Buzzcocks,
The Black Dice,
Stetsasonic,
Mark Hollis,
Tim Buckley,
The Gladiators,
The Residents,
Pere Ubu,
Young Marble Giants,
Whodini,
The Leaves,
The Seeds,
Liliput,
Rufus Thomas,
The Stooges,
Anthony Braxton,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Durutti Column,
Echospace,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum,
Make Up,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.