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 Taiwan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 DJ Sneak to the grunge 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantytec,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Bourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Niagra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lucky Dragons,
Erykah Badu,
Bad Manners,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eurythmics,
Popol Vuh,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nils Olav,
The Seeds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Smooth,
The Cure,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
Aloha Tigers,
Main Source,
Funkadelic,
Sugar Minott,
Quadrant,
Saccharine Trust,
Isaac Hayes,
Jandek,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Brothers Johnson,
Q65,
Jeff Mills,
The Blues Magoos,
Brick,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kurtis Blow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gong,
Flash Fearless,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef,
June of 44,
the Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Tremeloes,
the Bar-Kays,
the Germs,
Davy DMX,
Radiohead,
Rosa Yemen,
T. Rex,
Ronan,
Kayak,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
China Crisis,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.