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 Colombia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 The Skatalites to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Sight & Sound,
Urselle,
Don Cherry,
Model 500,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
Oneida,
LL Cool J,
The Moleskins,
10cc,
Bronski Beat,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smiths,
the Normal,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
Panda Bear,
Dual Sessions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liliput,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New Age Steppers,
DNA,
Pylon,
Skarface,
Chrome,
The Fuzztones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alton Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacques Brel,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barrington Levy,
Barbara Tucker,
Stereo Dub,
Derrick May,
The Cowsills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Von Mondo,
L. Decosne,
Cluster,
Warren Ellis,
Bob Dylan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lower 48,
Grauzone,
Monks,
Soul II Soul,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scrapy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.