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 Portugal and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Scrapy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doors,
The Busters,
The Monochrome Set,
Whodini,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Clarke,
Cameo,
Funky Four + One,
La Düsseldorf,
Swell Maps,
Idris Muhammad,
The Residents,
Cecil Taylor,
Gong,
Skriet,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Schoolly D,
The Litter,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed,
Depeche Mode,
Sixth Finger,
Moebius,
B.T. Express,
Symarip,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Davy DMX,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scientists,
Sonic Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Bobby Sherman,
Panda Bear,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Guru Guru,
Alice Coltrane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Style,
the Sonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cheater Slicks,
Tim Buckley,
Adolescents,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Evens,
Sällskapet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Peter & Gordon,
the Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Aural Exciters,
Suicide,
Todd Terry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cal Tjader,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Pus,
Joey Negro,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.