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 Zambia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Panda Bear to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Yellowson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
CMW,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zapp,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Swans,
Cal Tjader,
Idris Muhammad,
B.T. Express,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Symarip,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Mills,
Anthony Braxton,
Eden Ahbez,
The Techniques,
The Doors,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lower 48,
Moss Icon,
The Dave Clark Five,
New Age Steppers,
The United States of America,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Hill,
OOIOO,
Deadbeat,
Jandek,
Scion,
Bobby Womack,
Talk Talk,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
Stiv Bators,
Silicon Teens,
Spandau Ballet,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Starr,
Au Pairs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Josef K,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roy Ayers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Procol Harum,
Toni Rubio,
Man Parrish,
Sister Nancy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Janne Schatter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.