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 Chile and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Nico to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Alphaville,
Toni Rubio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dorothy Ashby,
Janne Schatter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Knickerbockers,
Fugazi,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ken Boothe,
Public Enemy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
Heaven 17,
David McCallum,
Second Layer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Al Stewart,
Cluster,
Mo-Dettes,
Shoche,
Derrick May,
Silicon Teens,
The Gladiators,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ice-T,
The Neon Judgement,
Michelle Simonal,
Piero Umiliani,
Eli Mardock,
Monks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Japan,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Move,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Main Source,
Minor Threat,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
Icehouse,
Chrome,
Zero Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kas Product,
Robert Wyatt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Boredoms,
Kurtis Blow,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Thee Headcoats,
This Heat,
Lou Reed,
Yellowson,
Essential Logic,
MDC,
Yusef Lateef,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.