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 Lebanon and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nirvana to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Nico,
Charles Mingus,
Supertramp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
June Days,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alison Limerick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Icehouse,
Leonard Cohen,
Warren Ellis,
Ten City,
Eric Dolphy,
Minny Pops,
Joe Smooth,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fugs,
The Cure,
Fatback Band,
Juan Atkins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Index,
Don Cherry,
Sugar Minott,
Sight & Sound,
Moby Grape,
The Mummies,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
F. McDonald,
The Invisible,
Visage,
Darondo,
Letta Mbulu,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül II,
Skarface,
The Pop Group,
The Move,
Chrome,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
New Age Steppers,
Masters at Work,
Scan 7,
Gang of Four,
Buzzcocks,
Agent Orange,
The Busters,
Funkadelic,
Fear,
The Detroit Cobras,
Con Funk Shun,
Crime,
Carl Craig,
Fad Gadget,
T.S.O.L.,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.