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 Portugal and from Stockholm.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Monochrome Set to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Sällskapet,
Pantaleimon,
Faust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Funkadelic,
Joy Division,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
B.T. Express,
The Cramps,
The Star Department,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delon & Dalcan,
Davy DMX,
Heaven 17,
Country Teasers,
June Days,
Second Layer,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deepchord,
Sister Nancy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crispian St. Peters,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spoonie Gee,
Zapp,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T. Rex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roxette,
Mars,
Little Man,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Junior Murvin,
Slick Rick,
The Blackbyrds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pylon,
The Fuzztones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Slave,
Laurel Aitken,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nas,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed,
kango's stein massive,
Mission of Burma,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Marine Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Flipper,
Aswad,
Wolf Eyes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.