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 Colombia and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sister Nancy to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
kango's stein massive,
Lalo Schifrin,
Icehouse,
Sonny Sharrock,
Altered Images,
Procol Harum,
Heaven 17,
Sixth Finger,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
48th St. Collective,
Yusef Lateef,
K-Klass,
The Smoke,
Letta Mbulu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skarface,
Stiv Bators,
David Axelrod,
Boz Scaggs,
Lakeside,
Mantronix,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DNA,
Reuben Wilson,
The Dirtbombs,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boredoms,
The Standells,
Goldenarms,
The Gories,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacob Miller,
The Searchers,
Robert Wyatt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Trojans,
Idris Muhammad,
Marine Girls,
the Human League,
Vainqueur,
Hot Snakes,
Pierre Henry,
The Cure,
Basic Channel,
the Fania All-Stars,
Trumans Water,
Nas,
Livin' Joy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sonics,
China Crisis,
The Mummies,
Piero Umiliani,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ken Boothe,
Brick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.