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 Spain and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Stereo Dub to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
The Dirtbombs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sandy B,
Flipper,
Davy DMX,
The Divine Comedy,
Zapp,
U.S. Maple,
Quadrant,
Nik Kershaw,
Sun Ra,
The Stooges,
Pantytec,
T. Rex,
The Litter,
ABBA,
Scratch Acid,
ABC,
Gil Scott Heron,
Groovy Waters,
Crime,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Mojo Men,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lindisfarne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mantronix,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lightning Bolt,
Altered Images,
Au Pairs,
Cybotron,
Monolake,
Black Pus,
Thee Headcoats,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Negative Approach,
Ronnie Foster,
Terry Callier,
Fugazi,
Brand Nubian,
Spandau Ballet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Archie Shepp,
Roxy Music,
Dark Day,
Juan Atkins,
Todd Rundgren,
Public Enemy,
James White and The Blacks,
Mark Hollis,
Scan 7,
X-102,
Accadde A,
Tommy Roe,
Radiohead,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.