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 Turkey and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
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 rhodes 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 Mandrill to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Rakim,
The Trojans,
The Gladiators,
Delta 5,
Section 25,
The Barracudas,
Bronski Beat,
B.T. Express,
Blake Baxter,
Minny Pops,
Camouflage,
The Birthday Party,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Junior Murvin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Guru Guru,
The Divine Comedy,
Basic Channel,
Prince Buster,
Interpol,
Peter and Kerry,
Cymande,
The Invisible,
Television Personalities,
Kenny Larkin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young,
Rod Modell,
The Blues Magoos,
The Golliwogs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scientists,
The Offenders,
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Trumans Water,
Underground Resistance,
The Techniques,
Slave,
Dark Day,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gichy Dan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cramps,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ossler,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ponytail,
Eric Dolphy,
PIL,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lee Hazlewood,
Organ,
Black Sheep,
The Dirtbombs,
The Happenings,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.