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 Slovakia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tommy Roe to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Sight & Sound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eli Mardock,
8 Eyed Spy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fat Boys,
The Dead C,
Johnny Clarke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang Starr,
The Slits,
X-102,
Matthew Bourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Babytalk,
Moebius,
Cluster,
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
Lalann,
Cameo,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick May,
Mark Hollis,
Zero Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fluxion,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Organ,
Nico,
Shoche,
The Gladiators,
Mr. Review,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dawn Penn,
Marine Girls,
Funky Four + One,
The Slackers,
Wasted Youth,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Near,
David McCallum,
The Victims,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pulsallama,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Searchers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.