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 United Kingdom and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Angels of Light to the disco 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eve St. Jones,
FM Einheit,
Todd Rundgren,
Chris & Cosey,
The Last Poets,
David McCallum,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Smoke,
The Birthday Party,
Second Layer,
Amon Düül II,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Zeros,
MDC,
Derrick Morgan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fortunes,
The Selecter,
Mars,
The Cure,
Groovy Waters,
EPMD,
The J.B.'s,
Pantytec,
The Blues Magoos,
Essential Logic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Stiv Bators,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nirvana,
The Red Krayola,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Buckinghams,
Godley & Creme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
Animal Collective,
Gang Green,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun City Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Vogues,
Freddie Wadling,
Pole,
Harmonia,
Delta 5,
Parry Music,
Mission of Burma,
Sällskapet,
Alison Limerick,
Oneida,
Con Funk Shun,
Nico,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.