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 Botswana and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron 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 In Retrospect to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Boogie Down Productions,
Siglo XX,
Technova,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boz Scaggs,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiohead,
Jerry's Kids,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pulsallama,
Gabor Szabo,
Rod Modell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Skatalites,
The Vogues,
Flash Fearless,
Archie Shepp,
L. Decosne,
Charles Mingus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Symarip,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
The Neon Judgement,
Jawbox,
Joe Finger,
Franke,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Oblivians,
Dawn Penn,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nirvana,
Yusef Lateef,
Eden Ahbez,
The Monochrome Set,
Neu!,
World's Most,
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Thompson Twins,
The Slackers,
Sugar Minott,
Gang of Four,
David Axelrod,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deepchord,
Al Stewart,
The Techniques,
Ultimate Spinach,
Qualms,
Tres Demented,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Slave,
Skarface,
Magma,
Junior Murvin,
Graham Central Station,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.