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 Kiribati and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scan 7 to the rap 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Altered Images tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Suburban Knight,
L. Decosne,
Unwound,
These Immortal Souls,
The Detroit Cobras,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Johnny Clarke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deadbeat,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Standells,
Television,
Lightning Bolt,
Youth Brigade,
Carl Craig,
Cymande,
Howard Jones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Los Fastidios,
June of 44,
The American Breed,
Junior Murvin,
Eddi Front,
Colin Newman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Niagra,
The Remains,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Flag,
Audionom,
The Cowsills,
Black Sheep,
Monks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
The Associates,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zero Boys,
Amon Düül,
Mary Jane Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Intrusion,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Chris & Cosey,
Marmalade,
David Axelrod,
Hoover,
Charles Mingus,
CMW,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.