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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 the Sonics to the dance 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar 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 sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
The Motions,
Johnny Osbourne,
Man Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
Underground Resistance,
Audionom,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fear,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Misunderstood,
Livin' Joy,
Outsiders,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Finger,
Toni Rubio,
The Selecter,
The Busters,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxy Music,
The Velvet Underground,
Faust,
Deakin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
Fela Kuti,
The Durutti Column,
Newcleus,
Dennis Brown,
Deadbeat,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
X-101,
the Fania All-Stars,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
The Divine Comedy,
T.S.O.L.,
The J.B.'s,
Au Pairs,
Spandau Ballet,
Babytalk,
Joy Division,
These Immortal Souls,
Sixth Finger,
Nirvana,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cluster,
Rakim,
Swans,
Graham Central Station,
Flamin' Groovies,
Althea and Donna,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Charles Mingus,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Angry Samoans,
Simply Red,
Al Stewart,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.