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 Turkey and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ralphi Rosario to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
kango's stein massive,
John Lydon,
Pantaleimon,
The Music Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Shuggie Otis,
Lyres,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Blues Magoos,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Smiths,
8 Eyed Spy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Neil Young,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Walker Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bauhaus,
Au Pairs,
The Motions,
Royal Trux,
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Whodini,
Bobby Womack,
The Misunderstood,
Motorama,
Glenn Branca,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pole,
Nico,
Youth Brigade,
John Holt,
The Busters,
Lou Reed,
Livin' Joy,
Accadde A,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Wake,
The Knickerbockers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Josef K,
The Skatalites,
LL Cool J,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.