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 San Marino and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Soulsonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Archie Shepp,
Moebius,
This Heat,
June of 44,
Blancmange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Neil Young,
Warren Ellis,
Dead Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Rotary Connection,
Piero Umiliani,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The J.B.'s,
Reagan Youth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Adolescents,
The Sonics,
Gong,
Eve St. Jones,
Essential Logic,
Grey Daturas,
Motorama,
the Normal,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marvin Gaye,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers,
Half Japanese,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jeff Mills,
Stiv Bators,
Dave Gahan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Siglo XX,
Zapp,
The Angels of Light,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flash Fearless,
Dark Day,
Sparks,
Moss Icon,
The Raincoats,
Arthur Verocai,
Young Marble Giants,
Steve Hackett,
Black Flag,
Brand Nubian,
Blossom Toes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Minutemen,
Kerri Chandler,
The Doors,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
the Swans,
Country Teasers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.