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 Cuba and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Harpers Bizarre to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Public Enemy,
Black Moon,
Magma,
UT,
The Monochrome Set,
Nick Fraelich,
Mantronix,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barbara Tucker,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Yellowson,
Porter Ricks,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
kango's stein massive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deadbeat,
Audionom,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Urselle,
Soft Cell,
Tubeway Army,
Supertramp,
Livin' Joy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bush Tetras,
Thompson Twins,
The New Christs,
Nico,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobby Byrd,
Alice Coltrane,
The Velvet Underground,
Joe Smooth,
The Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lakeside,
Pierre Henry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jeff Lynne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
New Order,
The Slits,
Scott Walker,
Procol Harum,
Isaac Hayes,
MDC,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Electric Prunes,
Amazonics,
The Gun Club,
Radio Birdman,
Cecil Taylor,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.