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 Macedonia and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
DNA,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Crime,
The Alarm Clocks,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Slackers,
The Fall,
Rufus Thomas,
Zapp,
Radiopuhelimet,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Modern Lovers,
D'Angelo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lungfish,
Symarip,
David Axelrod,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
UT,
Soul Sonic Force,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Index,
The Victims,
Nirvana,
The Offenders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare,
Basic Channel,
Faraquet,
John Cale,
Radiohead,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Bronski Beat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
R.M.O.,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Leaves,
The Searchers,
Blake Baxter,
Wire,
Scion,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Motions,
Depeche Mode,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Parry Music,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Juan Atkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Bang On A Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Lakeside,
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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.