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 Liberia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Index to the jazz 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Zero Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
EPMD,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brass Construction,
The Gories,
Crispy Ambulance,
Adolescents,
Parry Music,
Qualms,
Sarah Menescal,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Circle Jerks,
The Tremeloes,
Alice Coltrane,
The Smiths,
Brothers Johnson,
The Walker Brothers,
Shuggie Otis,
U.S. Maple,
Infiniti,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric Copeland,
John Lydon,
Todd Rundgren,
the Normal,
Aloha Tigers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Vogues,
June Days,
Gichy Dan,
Vainqueur,
Slave,
Juan Atkins,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter & Gordon,
Organ,
Sparks,
Goldenarms,
Kenny Larkin,
Inner City,
DNA,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Residents,
The Names,
Q and Not U,
Toni Rubio,
Yellowson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wings,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Funkadelic,
Anthony Braxton,
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.