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 Senegal and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Michael McDonald 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 Toni Rubio to the grunge 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Con Funk Shun,
the Association,
Ken Boothe,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Laurel Aitken,
The Toasters,
K-Klass,
Livin' Joy,
Michelle Simonal,
Masters at Work,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fall,
Janne Schatter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jerry's Kids,
Fugazi,
Blake Baxter,
The Gories,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Trumans Water,
The Move,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Glenn Branca,
Television,
Derrick Morgan,
E-Dancer,
Robert Hood,
The Residents,
Basic Channel,
Tim Buckley,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Lucky Dragons,
X-Ray Spex,
the Swans,
Eve St. Jones,
10cc,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Neon Judgement,
T. Rex,
The Moleskins,
Joe Smooth,
The Monks,
Nils Olav,
Icehouse,
The Tremeloes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Maurizio,
Metal Thangz,
Sonny Sharrock,
L. Decosne,
The Seeds,
CMW,
Peter & Gordon,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.