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 Lithuania and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Interpol to the funk 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Dead Boys,
The Gun Club,
Pulsallama,
La Düsseldorf,
New Age Steppers,
The Young Rascals,
Tears for Fears,
Boredoms,
Supertramp,
The Flesh Eaters,
Average White Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Ronnie Foster,
Pylon,
Fluxion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rod Modell,
Davy DMX,
Infiniti,
Nico,
Smog,
Essential Logic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Trojans,
Leonard Cohen,
Ponytail,
Television Personalities,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kaleidoscope,
Joy Division,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Toni Rubio,
Wolf Eyes,
X-101,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Sneak,
Inner City,
The Dead C,
Parry Music,
Brand Nubian,
Clear Light,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yaz,
R.M.O.,
Mary Jane Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kurtis Blow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quando Quango,
Dual Sessions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joe Finger,
The Happenings,
The Real Kids,
Royal Trux,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Laurel Aitken,
The Star Department,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.