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 Suriname and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 June of 44 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Audionom,
Neu!,
Black Pus,
Inner City,
The Vogues,
Suicide,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wasted Youth,
Rekid,
Black Flag,
The Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soul II Soul,
The Cowsills,
Rakim,
Drexciya,
Eyeless In Gaza,
L. Decosne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Judy Mowatt,
Susan Cadogan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Quando Quango,
Blake Baxter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sugar Minott,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pantytec,
T. Rex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
U.S. Maple,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Görl,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bob Dylan,
The Black Dice,
Wings,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions,
Little Man,
The Modern Lovers,
Negative Approach,
Panda Bear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Country Teasers,
Todd Terry,
Jacob Miller,
the Soft Cell,
Rapeman,
The Knickerbockers,
Nils Olav,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.