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 Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Susan Cadogan to the punk 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Susan Cadogan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Funky Four + One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cal Tjader,
Ludus,
JFA,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Outsiders,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yaz,
Althea and Donna,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Durutti Column,
Colin Newman,
Suicide,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Sheep,
Joensuu 1685,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Dolphy,
Oblivians,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aural Exciters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Crooked Eye,
Quando Quango,
The United States of America,
Brick,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter,
Porter Ricks,
The Fire Engines,
ABC,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeff Mills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mars,
CMW,
Bronski Beat,
Yazoo,
Terry Callier,
Harmonia,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe,
Section 25,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Residents,
Jacques Brel,
Connie Case,
the Fania All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Parry Music,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sun City Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.