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 Burkina and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba 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 Basic Channel to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Erykah Badu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joe Smooth,
Main Source,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ornette Coleman,
Wire,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Urselle,
Aural Exciters,
The Wake,
Bush Tetras,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lee Hazlewood,
Shuggie Otis,
Funkadelic,
Cluster,
The Offenders,
In Retrospect,
FM Einheit,
Monks,
Heaven 17,
Porter Ricks,
Joy Division,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bad Manners,
Easy Going,
Organ,
Barry Ungar,
Chris Corsano,
The Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
L. Decosne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dark Day,
The Music Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wally Richardson,
The Mummies,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
The Gap Band,
Franke,
Agitation Free,
Duran Duran,
Stetsasonic,
Little Man,
Blake Baxter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soft Cell,
Depeche Mode,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Essential Logic,
Letta Mbulu,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.