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 Iraq and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin 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 Interpol to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Suicide,
Jerry's Kids,
The Move,
James White and The Blacks,
Guru Guru,
Monks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
Johnny Clarke,
Tommy Roe,
Symarip,
the Slits,
Rakim,
Gabor Szabo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gichy Dan,
The Wake,
Aswad,
The Dead C,
The Grass Roots,
CMW,
Josef K,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scion,
Ultra Naté,
Jeff Lynne,
Spoonie Gee,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rosa Yemen,
Pere Ubu,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wings,
Deadbeat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harry Pussy,
Erykah Badu,
Camouflage,
Pierre Henry,
H. Thieme,
This Heat,
Groovy Waters,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tears for Fears,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
LL Cool J,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nirvana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.