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 Qatar and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Susan Cadogan 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lyres,
The Techniques,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Iggy Pop,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Vogues,
Delta 5,
Can,
Donald Byrd,
Trumans Water,
Quadrant,
the Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blancmange,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Liliput,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Erasure,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
X-Ray Spex,
Joe Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül II,
Public Image Ltd.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ohio Players,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
Mars,
Danielle Patucci,
Darondo,
Yusef Lateef,
The Durutti Column,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ludus,
Tres Demented,
Wire,
Sight & Sound,
The Searchers,
Amazonics,
X-101,
The Kinks,
Vainqueur,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Intrusion,
Bobby Womack,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Todd Terry,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
Barbara Tucker,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.