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 Finland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Invisible to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Green,
Aloha Tigers,
Lightning Bolt,
Byron Stingily,
The Associates,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Colin Newman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sun City Girls,
Surgeon,
The Fugs,
Leonard Cohen,
Scientists,
Tubeway Army,
Althea and Donna,
Rosa Yemen,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Index,
kango's stein massive,
Tears for Fears,
Albert Ayler,
Gong,
Hoover,
Max Romeo,
Roxette,
These Immortal Souls,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
Crime,
Chris & Cosey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Liliput,
Audionom,
L. Decosne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ossler,
Unwound,
Kerri Chandler,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quantec,
Altered Images,
The Cowsills,
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Massinfluence,
Grauzone,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gories,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bob Dylan,
Ultra Naté,
John Holt,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.