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 Indonesia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare,
Byron Stingily,
June Days,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Sound Behaviour,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad,
Niagra,
Warsaw,
Angry Samoans,
Cecil Taylor,
LL Cool J,
Monolake,
Lyres,
The Golliwogs,
Clear Light,
The Red Krayola,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fugs,
Oneida,
Rakim,
Ice-T,
Aural Exciters,
The Index,
Severed Heads,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Leaves,
China Crisis,
Urselle,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aswad,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gap Band,
Sparks,
Marmalade,
The Blues Magoos,
The Slackers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
These Immortal Souls,
The Monochrome Set,
Qualms,
The New Christs,
Todd Terry,
The Gories,
Yazoo,
Arab on Radar,
Bill Wells,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lakeside,
Judy Mowatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kenny Larkin,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.