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 Lithuania and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Smog 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mission of Burma,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bronski Beat,
Joe Smooth,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Selecter,
Agent Orange,
The Fall,
Rod Modell,
Visage,
Minnie Riperton,
Sight & Sound,
Bush Tetras,
Judy Mowatt,
Vladislav Delay,
Kurtis Blow,
Matthew Halsall,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Andrew Hill,
Al Stewart,
Soulsonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lightning Bolt,
Pagans,
The Searchers,
R.M.O.,
Cybotron,
Hardrive,
Kerrie Biddell,
Surgeon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Freddie Wadling,
Cecil Taylor,
Supertramp,
Marvin Gaye,
Lee Hazlewood,
Toni Rubio,
Zapp,
Terry Callier,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Mills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
L. Decosne,
Rites of Spring,
Mo-Dettes,
Tom Boy,
The Gories,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kerri Chandler,
Funkadelic,
Dead Boys,
KRS-One,
Nation of Ulysses,
Negative Approach,
Fugazi,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.