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 Bolivia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Infiniti to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
E-Dancer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stetsasonic,
Stiv Bators,
The Raincoats,
The Evens,
Intrusion,
D'Angelo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Human League,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Remains,
Animal Collective,
Moss Icon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yazoo,
Sugar Minott,
Isaac Hayes,
Tubeway Army,
Leonard Cohen,
Nick Fraelich,
The Blackbyrds,
Ossler,
Yusef Lateef,
The Seeds,
Brass Construction,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Five Americans,
Jacob Miller,
Little Man,
Con Funk Shun,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mars,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed,
Carl Craig,
The Gap Band,
Amon Düül II,
F. McDonald,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Golliwogs,
MDC,
Al Stewart,
Jeff Lynne,
T. Rex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roxette,
The Moody Blues,
The Searchers,
James White and The Blacks,
Chris Corsano,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Mills,
Main Source,
The Skatalites,
Kenny Larkin,
U.S. Maple,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.