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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Rotary Connection to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
AZ,
Gichy Dan,
The Mojo Men,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Blake Baxter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Pop Group,
Silicon Teens,
Bobby Sherman,
Donald Byrd,
The Young Rascals,
Massinfluence,
Radiohead,
Procol Harum,
The Slackers,
Junior Murvin,
Bush Tetras,
Los Fastidios,
48th St. Collective,
Theoretical Girls,
Minor Threat,
Echospace,
Chrome,
Stereo Dub,
Icehouse,
Organ,
the Swans,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Clarke,
Ponytail,
Supertramp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
KRS-One,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gun Club,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dorothy Ashby,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scott Walker,
Jawbox,
The Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cybotron,
John Coltrane,
MC5,
Bootsy Collins,
The Zeros,
Amazonics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Terry Callier,
Grey Daturas,
Eric B and Rakim,
Matthew Halsall,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Section 25,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.