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 Paraguay and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 David McCallum to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Parry Music,
Jacques Brel,
Urselle,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
CMW,
The Pretty Things,
Fugazi,
Youth Brigade,
Black Sheep,
Main Source,
Kenny Larkin,
Lucky Dragons,
Derrick Morgan,
Cal Tjader,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rufus Thomas,
Pylon,
Stereo Dub,
Colin Newman,
The Associates,
Y Pants,
Ultra Naté,
Cymande,
Quantec,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eden Ahbez,
Banda Bassotti,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camberwell Now,
Mantronix,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
X-101,
Swans,
The Tremeloes,
Magma,
Byron Stingily,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cybotron,
Joey Negro,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Graham Central Station,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Toasters,
John Holt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tom Boy,
Ohio Players,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
The Saints,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.