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 Pakistan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Donald Byrd to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Glenn Branca,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Technova,
Public Enemy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lee Hazlewood,
Juan Atkins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Bar-Kays,
Godley & Creme,
Sarah Menescal,
Prince Buster,
Motorama,
Heaven 17,
Das Ding,
Todd Terry,
Nico,
Television Personalities,
The Golliwogs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
JFA,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronan,
Bronski Beat,
Los Fastidios,
The Last Poets,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Scratch Acid,
Infiniti,
The Associates,
The Dave Clark Five,
Archie Shepp,
Rotary Connection,
Faraquet,
Duran Duran,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fatback Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
PIL,
Schoolly D,
Rites of Spring,
Pantytec,
Bill Near,
The Knickerbockers,
Neil Young,
Moby Grape,
Minutemen,
Cameo,
Royal Trux,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.