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 Iraq and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba 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 One Last Wish to the dance 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Faust,
Young Marble Giants,
Lee Hazlewood,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eric Dolphy,
Deepchord,
Marc Almond,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Spandau Ballet,
Tommy Roe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Alice Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Germs,
Lalann,
Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Johnny Clarke,
Brand Nubian,
Amon Düül,
Matthew Bourne,
Rosa Yemen,
Deadbeat,
Anthony Braxton,
Glenn Branca,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Minny Pops,
R.M.O.,
Hot Snakes,
Kas Product,
Animal Collective,
Brick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rites of Spring,
the Normal,
Lou Christie,
Bob Dylan,
Jacob Miller,
Lucky Dragons,
Roy Ayers,
Duran Duran,
The Kinks,
Sound Behaviour,
Adolescents,
Boz Scaggs,
Icehouse,
The Neon Judgement,
The Victims,
Bill Wells,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Invisible,
Gichy Dan,
Talk Talk,
X-101,
Black Flag,
The Smiths,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.