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 Turkmenistan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Los Fastidios to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
MC5,
Essential Logic,
Rekid,
Ten City,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
Reagan Youth,
Franke,
Sight & Sound,
Cameo,
Talk Talk,
Cal Tjader,
Carl Craig,
Gabor Szabo,
Erasure,
The Gories,
Max Romeo,
Eden Ahbez,
Qualms,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Clarke,
Josef K,
Urselle,
Avey Tare,
Shoche,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Bourne,
Rapeman,
Funkadelic,
Second Layer,
Marvin Gaye,
Kas Product,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gap Band,
Joensuu 1685,
The Doors,
Gong,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slits,
Scion,
Rod Modell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
New York Dolls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
MDC,
Barbara Tucker,
Yazoo,
Cecil Taylor,
Lalann,
Depeche Mode,
Tom Boy,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers,
Accadde A,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.