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 Turkmenistan and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet 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 Happenings to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Connie Case,
Dawn Penn,
Sonic Youth,
Pole,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Matthew Bourne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Agent Orange,
Crash Course in Science,
Theoretical Girls,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
Scrapy,
The Names,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dennis Brown,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kaleidoscope,
Adolescents,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MC5,
Robert Görl,
MDC,
Stiv Bators,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New Age Steppers,
Mantronix,
Mandrill,
Charles Mingus,
Slick Rick,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Panda Bear,
Kool Moe Dee,
Youth Brigade,
AZ,
Mr. Review,
The Dirtbombs,
The Smoke,
Model 500,
Minny Pops,
Andrew Hill,
Sex Pistols,
La Düsseldorf,
Cybotron,
Lakeside,
cv313,
Godley & Creme,
Barry Ungar,
The Wake,
The Pretty Things,
Radiohead,
Deepchord,
Tommy Roe,
JFA,
Terry Callier,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.