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 New Zealand and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sixth Finger to the crunk 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Neil Young,
Althea and Donna,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
Marc Almond,
Von Mondo,
R.M.O.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moss Icon,
Average White Band,
Shoche,
Prince Buster,
The Residents,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABC,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun City Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Eve St. Jones,
Fatback Band,
Sex Pistols,
The Grass Roots,
Reagan Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Saccharine Trust,
Circle Jerks,
Thompson Twins,
Cluster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
D'Angelo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roxy Music,
10cc,
Audionom,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cal Tjader,
Quadrant,
Chris & Cosey,
The Busters,
Maleditus Sound,
The Names,
Wings,
Monolake,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Boredoms,
Fad Gadget,
Little Man,
Bronski Beat,
Qualms,
The Vogues,
Au Pairs,
Ornette Coleman,
Grey Daturas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
L. Decosne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.