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 Uruguay and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Stockholm Monsters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul II Soul,
David McCallum,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zero Boys,
Agent Orange,
Marmalade,
Joensuu 1685,
The Count Five,
The Mojo Men,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lindisfarne,
Nas,
The Saints,
China Crisis,
Neil Young,
Fat Boys,
Smog,
Sugar Minott,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barclay James Harvest,
MC5,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Wyatt,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Starr,
Man Parrish,
Quantec,
The Cramps,
Suburban Knight,
La Düsseldorf,
The Toasters,
Babytalk,
Junior Murvin,
Cameo,
Derrick Morgan,
Matthew Bourne,
Erasure,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Parry Music,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sonic Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Aural Exciters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rufus Thomas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echospace,
Urselle,
Danielle Patucci,
Radiohead,
Funky Four + One,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ken Boothe,
Swans,
Pantaleimon,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.