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 Congo and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flash Fearless to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
The Young Rascals,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Order,
Kerrie Biddell,
Patti Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minnie Riperton,
Fugazi,
Clear Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Lungfish,
Excepter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kas Product,
Wolf Eyes,
Grauzone,
DJ Sneak,
The Mighty Diamonds,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
AZ,
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
Q and Not U,
Accadde A,
Jimmy McGriff,
Technova,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Average White Band,
ABC,
Rapeman,
Jacob Miller,
Section 25,
The Associates,
Von Mondo,
U.S. Maple,
The Gories,
Dawn Penn,
Eurythmics,
Ten City,
Crispian St. Peters,
Reuben Wilson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Carl Craig,
Bill Near,
The Red Krayola,
The Grass Roots,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
New York Dolls,
Joe Finger,
Dave Gahan,
Nirvana,
CMW,
Josef K,
The Move,
the Slits,
Chris Corsano,
Ultimate Spinach,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.