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 Burkina and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet 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 Juan Atkins to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Germs,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy Collins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Dead C,
Sugar Minott,
The Gap Band,
Nas,
Marvin Gaye,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
ABBA,
Lungfish,
Fat Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Dirtbombs,
Cheater Slicks,
Mandrill,
Bluetip,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Standells,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Moon,
Interpol,
Motorama,
Whodini,
Deakin,
Judy Mowatt,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Robert Hood,
The Neon Judgement,
The Knickerbockers,
MC5,
Juan Atkins,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott Heron,
This Heat,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
La Düsseldorf,
Albert Ayler,
The Slackers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mars,
Donny Hathaway,
Grauzone,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17,
Minor Threat,
Popol Vuh,
Barbara Tucker,
Chris Corsano,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sixth Finger,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.