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 Switzerland and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Babytalk to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The Young Rascals,
Scratch Acid,
Intrusion,
Cybotron,
Sixth Finger,
Nils Olav,
MDC,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roxette,
Cluster,
Ice-T,
cv313,
Roger Hodgson,
Zapp,
Khruangbin,
Gregory Isaacs,
New Order,
T.S.O.L.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nico,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Blues Magoos,
The Birthday Party,
Warren Ellis,
the Normal,
Symarip,
Fear,
Ronnie Foster,
The Skatalites,
Soul II Soul,
Minnie Riperton,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Malaria!,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Busters,
Alice Coltrane,
Marmalade,
John Coltrane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Smiths,
Kerrie Biddell,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hashim,
Man Parrish,
Sister Nancy,
Hoover,
Desert Stars,
Pantaleimon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Foxx,
Jerry's Kids,
The Leaves,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sällskapet,
Gang Green,
Wolf Eyes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.