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 Sweden and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Aloha Tigers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Isaac Hayes,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Sonics,
Wolf Eyes,
Todd Terry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
FM Einheit,
Albert Ayler,
Lucky Dragons,
Slick Rick,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Normal,
Siglo XX,
Oblivians,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tom Boy,
Roxy Music,
Organ,
China Crisis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gregory Isaacs,
Morten Harket,
New York Dolls,
Kas Product,
Television Personalities,
Junior Murvin,
Mission of Burma,
The Vogues,
Iggy Pop,
Half Japanese,
Sexual Harrassment,
Essential Logic,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fortunes,
Intrusion,
Skriet,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Leaves,
Bill Near,
Brothers Johnson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Smiths,
The Fugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angry Samoans,
The Human League,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Second Layer,
Joe Finger,
Marmalade,
Lightning Bolt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eli Mardock,
Youth Brigade,
Procol Harum,
Mars,
Fatback Band,
Bang On A Can,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.