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 Ecuador and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Albert Ayler to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crime,
Josef K,
Make Up,
Crash Course in Science,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
New Age Steppers,
The Fuzztones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Flash Fearless,
Ultravox,
Hashim,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Swans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Patti Smith,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gories,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sam Rivers,
The Blues Magoos,
Deakin,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Birthday Party,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Maurizio,
Banda Bassotti,
The Offenders,
Moby Grape,
Todd Terry,
X-101,
Alison Limerick,
Pylon,
Lungfish,
Aaron Thompson,
Warsaw,
Wire,
Camberwell Now,
Chris Corsano,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marmalade,
Interpol,
Anthony Braxton,
Rekid,
Duran Duran,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül,
The Walker Brothers,
June Days,
Lucky Dragons,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.