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 Azerbaijan 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Soulsonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Black Sheep,
Franke,
the Bar-Kays,
Mark Hollis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bob Dylan,
Neu!,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gerry Rafferty,
The United States of America,
Tres Demented,
Dark Day,
The Raincoats,
Josef K,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cal Tjader,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Moebius,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Second Layer,
The Smoke,
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Siglo XX,
Can,
Bill Near,
Joensuu 1685,
Pagans,
Dead Boys,
the Germs,
Bad Manners,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Slits,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Bluetip,
Stiv Bators,
The Beau Brummels,
Toni Rubio,
Heaven 17,
The Sound,
the Swans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sonny Sharrock,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Max Romeo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wire,
Sex Pistols,
Magma,
Zero Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joy Division,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.