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 Uruguay and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Underground Resistance to the rap 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minnie Riperton,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Pus,
Susan Cadogan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeff Mills,
Archie Shepp,
Fluxion,
The Busters,
This Heat,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cymande,
Bauhaus,
Anthony Braxton,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
Josef K,
Audionom,
Lou Christie,
D'Angelo,
Byron Stingily,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sex Pistols,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Basic Channel,
Hashim,
Scott Walker,
Unwound,
Monks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Doors,
Lindisfarne,
Public Enemy,
Clear Light,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Modern Lovers,
Cluster,
The Doobie Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moss Icon,
Bill Wells,
Pere Ubu,
Suburban Knight,
Siglo XX,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Names,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Organ,
The Selecter,
Bang On A Can,
Rod Modell,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.