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 Ethiopia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Derrick May,
the Association,
The Cramps,
Leonard Cohen,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gong,
Alice Coltrane,
Quando Quango,
Ornette Coleman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Black Flag,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lalann,
Skarface,
Loose Ends,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wolf Eyes,
Brass Construction,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scan 7,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Echospace,
Shoche,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
Adolescents,
Pantaleimon,
The Velvet Underground,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
The Doors,
Gastr Del Sol,
Index,
Harmonia,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Pop Group,
Terry Callier,
Guru Guru,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Cure,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dave Gahan,
Unwound,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kas Product,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
John Holt,
Scott Walker,
The Walker Brothers,
Sexual Harrassment,
LL Cool J,
The Busters,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.