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 Guatemala and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jacob Miller to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
The Names,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Aswad,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ralphi Rosario,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Davy DMX,
Newcleus,
Black Bananas,
Theoretical Girls,
the Normal,
Deadbeat,
Average White Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Cybotron,
Eurythmics,
Cheater Slicks,
Glenn Branca,
Mark Hollis,
Jacques Brel,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Tomorrow,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dark Day,
The Vogues,
Sällskapet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aural Exciters,
the Germs,
Connie Case,
Minnie Riperton,
Rosa Yemen,
Index,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Warren Ellis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Raincoats,
Main Source,
Roxy Music,
The Fugs,
June Days,
Massinfluence,
Al Stewart,
The Seeds,
T. Rex,
Eli Mardock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Malaria!,
Neil Young,
Judy Mowatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Byrd,
Susan Cadogan,
The Pop Group,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.