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 Thailand and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Slick Rick to the jazz 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
The Techniques,
Marcia Griffiths,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Morten Harket,
The Fire Engines,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Ornette Coleman,
Erykah Badu,
The Evens,
Dennis Brown,
AZ,
H. Thieme,
Sugar Minott,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Desert Stars,
Babytalk,
Pierre Henry,
Malaria!,
Public Enemy,
Man Parrish,
Harmonia,
Silicon Teens,
The Monks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Golliwogs,
Excepter,
Bob Dylan,
Scion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Heaven 17,
One Last Wish,
Roxy Music,
Pagans,
Bluetip,
The Barracudas,
Cecil Taylor,
Q and Not U,
A Certain Ratio,
Aloha Tigers,
Rites of Spring,
Toni Rubio,
Godley & Creme,
The Gap Band,
Bush Tetras,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Al Stewart,
FM Einheit,
Carl Craig,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Standells,
Yusef Lateef,
Television,
Kerri Chandler,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Don Cherry,
Deakin,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.