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 Yemen and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Livin' Joy to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
The Mojo Men,
Joy Division,
Derrick Morgan,
Kurtis Blow,
The Remains,
The Star Department,
The Happenings,
Khruangbin,
The Buckinghams,
Ronnie Foster,
X-102,
Harmonia,
The Red Krayola,
Anakelly,
Theoretical Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott Heron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Inner City,
Hoover,
Soul II Soul,
Peter & Gordon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Schoolly D,
Bauhaus,
Yaz,
D'Angelo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pulsallama,
Thompson Twins,
The Fire Engines,
KRS-One,
Sam Rivers,
The Angels of Light,
Rites of Spring,
Pere Ubu,
The Cowsills,
Scientists,
Ultravox,
Albert Ayler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pole,
Gichy Dan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Leonard Cohen,
Brand Nubian,
E-Dancer,
Nas,
Flipper,
Ohio Players,
DNA,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Motorama,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Connie Case,
Iggy Pop,
Lungfish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle 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.