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 Jamaica and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 The Gap Band 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Archie Shepp,
Gichy Dan,
The Young Rascals,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tears for Fears,
Tim Buckley,
cv313,
Black Bananas,
AZ,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DJ Style,
The Buckinghams,
Connie Case,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Robert Hood,
Todd Rundgren,
Bill Wells,
The Doors,
Essential Logic,
Spoonie Gee,
Faust,
Alison Limerick,
kango's stein massive,
Rotary Connection,
Ronnie Foster,
Neu!,
Easy Going,
Soft Machine,
Funky Four + One,
The Smiths,
Aswad,
D'Angelo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Trumans Water,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arab on Radar,
Hoover,
Main Source,
Jacques Brel,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Mars,
The Dirtbombs,
Roxette,
Country Teasers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alphaville,
Flash Fearless,
Roger Hodgson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Von Mondo,
Lou Reed,
Magazine,
the Slits,
Duran Duran,
Infiniti,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.