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 El Salvador and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Can to the dance 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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Depeche Mode,
Pharoah Sanders,
Shoche,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Easy Going,
Kenny Larkin,
Drexciya,
The Human League,
Porter Ricks,
Nils Olav,
Hot Snakes,
Kerri Chandler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Flipper,
Sarah Menescal,
Sonic Youth,
Monolake,
Agent Orange,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scan 7,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maleditus Sound,
The Beau Brummels,
The Litter,
Pulsallama,
the Association,
Maurizio,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rakim,
Scientists,
Supertramp,
Sly & The Family Stone,
H. Thieme,
Jandek,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Barrington Levy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Duran Duran,
Prince Buster,
Royal Trux,
The Martian,
Niagra,
The Velvet Underground,
the Sonics,
Skarface,
Hoover,
The Residents,
Average White Band,
Television,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sister Nancy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Josef K,
Intrusion,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.