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 Ivory Coast and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun Ra to the crunk 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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Aloha Tigers,
The Divine Comedy,
Circle Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Accadde A,
Ronnie Foster,
Rhythm & Sound,
Harmonia,
Groovy Waters,
F. McDonald,
Vainqueur,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
Nas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Flash Fearless,
Sister Nancy,
Aswad,
Monks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rapeman,
The Misunderstood,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Johnny Osbourne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joy Division,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hardrive,
Zero Boys,
Moby Grape,
Mad Mike,
Technova,
Grauzone,
Sparks,
The Techniques,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
One Last Wish,
The Kinks,
Radiohead,
Crash Course in Science,
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
The Cowsills,
Main Source,
The Litter,
Swell Maps,
Mo-Dettes,
Aaron Thompson,
Rakim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.