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 Singapore and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 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 Essential Logic to the crunk 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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
Byron Stingily,
Dawn Penn,
Yellowson,
The J.B.'s,
Eric Copeland,
Average White Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Peter & Gordon,
Pagans,
MDC,
Eden Ahbez,
B.T. Express,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Pulsallama,
Zero Boys,
Swans,
Panda Bear,
CMW,
The Techniques,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Godley & Creme,
Brand Nubian,
Harpers Bizarre,
Symarip,
the Sonics,
Marvin Gaye,
Scion,
Desert Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Lungfish,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Hood,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lalann,
Letta Mbulu,
Kool Moe Dee,
Y Pants,
Kas Product,
Supertramp,
Graham Central Station,
Fatback Band,
The Mojo Men,
Gang of Four,
The Cure,
Bauhaus,
Metal Thangz,
Brothers Johnson,
U.S. Maple,
The Detroit Cobras,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.