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 El Salvador and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Maleditus Sound,
Depeche Mode,
The Neon Judgement,
Sällskapet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Knickerbockers,
Camberwell Now,
Leonard Cohen,
AZ,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Christie,
Flamin' Groovies,
Easy Going,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radio Birdman,
Interpol,
The Fugs,
The Star Department,
Erasure,
The Barracudas,
Make Up,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sound Behaviour,
Roxette,
Neu!,
Ponytail,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lindisfarne,
Porter Ricks,
Tubeway Army,
Pagans,
DJ Style,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hasil Adkins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eddi Front,
Idris Muhammad,
Tommy Roe,
The Move,
Alphaville,
Goldenarms,
Cameo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sonny Sharrock,
Janne Schatter,
Eurythmics,
MDC,
Stereo Dub,
Black Moon,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy,
Vainqueur,
Fela Kuti,
Essential Logic,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.