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 Bangladesh and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Absolute Body Control to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eve St. Jones,
Grey Daturas,
Accadde A,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kurtis Blow,
Camouflage,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Golliwogs,
Sparks,
Black Sheep,
Ralphi Rosario,
FM Einheit,
Freddie Wadling,
Deepchord,
Sällskapet,
Funkadelic,
Sugar Minott,
The Residents,
Yusef Lateef,
Donny Hathaway,
Lebanon Hanover,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moleskins,
Schoolly D,
Fear,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Technova,
Oblivians,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brand Nubian,
Public Enemy,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Qualms,
Michelle Simonal,
Arcadia,
Danielle Patucci,
The Beau Brummels,
The United States of America,
Warren Ellis,
Bronski Beat,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Martian,
Hashim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mummies,
Nirvana,
James White and The Blacks,
Prince Buster,
Zero Boys,
The Smoke,
Lucky Dragons,
The Trojans,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.