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 Angola and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Donny Hathaway to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
DJ Style,
Sun City Girls,
Warren Ellis,
Ultravox,
Joe Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Dave Gahan,
Toni Rubio,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dead Boys,
June of 44,
The Index,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Fear,
Marvin Gaye,
Oblivians,
The Blackbyrds,
Kerri Chandler,
Davy DMX,
Royal Trux,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rites of Spring,
Intrusion,
Trumans Water,
Skarface,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Khruangbin,
Piero Umiliani,
Warsaw,
The Slits,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fortunes,
Clear Light,
DNA,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lalann,
Lyres,
Jerry's Kids,
Panda Bear,
Bauhaus,
Slick Rick,
These Immortal Souls,
Archie Shepp,
Derrick May,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
Deakin,
Nico,
Todd Rundgren,
EPMD,
Arthur Verocai,
Ituana,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.