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 Lebanon and from London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar 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 X-102 to the rap 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Gang of Four,
Vainqueur,
Eurythmics,
Scrapy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
The Skatalites,
AZ,
Heaven 17,
Lee Hazlewood,
EPMD,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
Ludus,
The Saints,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bluetip,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Beau Brummels,
The Associates,
The Smoke,
The Dirtbombs,
Deepchord,
Alison Limerick,
10cc,
Avey Tare,
The Motions,
Television,
the Slits,
Alton Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Chris Corsano,
Max Romeo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Interpol,
T.S.O.L.,
Audionom,
Arcadia,
Maurizio,
Roy Ayers,
Mission of Burma,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Slave,
Joensuu 1685,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scion,
The Black Dice,
James Chance & The Contortions,
T. Rex,
Stereo Dub,
D'Angelo,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.