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 Guyana and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Gastr Del Sol to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
Barrington Levy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Parry Music,
Robert Hood,
Minutemen,
Sex Pistols,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Monks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lakeside,
Josef K,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
K-Klass,
June Days,
X-102,
Traffic Nightmare,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Liliput,
Aaron Thompson,
Basic Channel,
The Barracudas,
Joy Division,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
Danielle Patucci,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skriet,
Crime,
Inner City,
Vainqueur,
Black Bananas,
Deepchord,
Eric Dolphy,
Pulsallama,
Lungfish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Blake Baxter,
Groovy Waters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
kango's stein massive,
10cc,
Jesper Dahlback,
Harry Pussy,
China Crisis,
Infiniti,
Hoover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grey Daturas,
Gabor Szabo,
Suburban Knight,
Intrusion,
Stockholm Monsters,
Franke,
8 Eyed Spy,
Patti Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
The Seeds,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.