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 St Lucia and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Sällskapet to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
The New Christs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thompson Twins,
The Vogues,
Smog,
Jawbox,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Offenders,
Silicon Teens,
The Black Dice,
the Association,
Suburban Knight,
Qualms,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soft Machine,
Hoover,
Groovy Waters,
Alton Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Electric Prunes,
Eli Mardock,
Chrome,
Hasil Adkins,
Shoche,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Mills,
Nirvana,
Interpol,
Max Romeo,
The Doors,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dead C,
Fluxion,
The Zeros,
Bill Wells,
John Coltrane,
The Fugs,
David Axelrod,
Deepchord,
Big Daddy Kane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nico,
Mission of Burma,
MDC,
Susan Cadogan,
Sällskapet,
Hashim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Swell Maps,
Lalann,
Funkadelic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Swans,
Eric Copeland,
Soulsonic Force,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.