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 Togo and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum 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 Velvet Underground to the techno 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Marine Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gichy Dan,
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Janne Schatter,
The Moody Blues,
Alison Limerick,
Ten City,
The Skatalites,
Minor Threat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric Dolphy,
The Move,
Avey Tare,
Soft Cell,
Jawbox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heaven 17,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sonic Youth,
The Fuzztones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed,
D'Angelo,
Aloha Tigers,
Max Romeo,
Godley & Creme,
The Residents,
The Dirtbombs,
Todd Rundgren,
Bizarre Inc.,
kango's stein massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Smooth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stetsasonic,
The Gladiators,
ABC,
The Slits,
The Walker Brothers,
T. Rex,
ABBA,
Nas,
Gang Green,
Thompson Twins,
The Count Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boredoms,
Harmonia,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerri Chandler,
The American Breed,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.