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 Azerbaijan and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare 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 The Music Machine to the jazz 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Aloha Tigers,
Lungfish,
The Evens,
MDC,
Metal Thangz,
Q and Not U,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Erykah Badu,
China Crisis,
Cymande,
DJ Style,
Blancmange,
The United States of America,
Fugazi,
T.S.O.L.,
Terry Callier,
Los Fastidios,
the Fania All-Stars,
Morten Harket,
The Slits,
Country Teasers,
Jandek,
Eric B and Rakim,
Massinfluence,
Swans,
Pole,
Accadde A,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scientists,
David McCallum,
Jacques Brel,
Bang On A Can,
Magma,
Marmalade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soulsonic Force,
Oneida,
Bill Wells,
Parry Music,
MC5,
Bush Tetras,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eden Ahbez,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pulsallama,
OOIOO,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Reuben Wilson,
the Slits,
a-ha,
Popol Vuh,
Don Cherry,
The New Christs,
Man Parrish,
Nico,
This Heat,
The Young Rascals,
The Skatalites,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.