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 Germany and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Soul Sonic Force to the dance 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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Newcleus,
Groovy Waters,
Bill Wells,
The United States of America,
Scan 7,
Pulsallama,
The Fire Engines,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Q and Not U,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Amon Düül II,
The Invisible,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Dave Clark Five,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Schoolly D,
Bang On A Can,
Hasil Adkins,
The Skatalites,
Erykah Badu,
the Slits,
Fela Kuti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visage,
David McCallum,
Patti Smith,
Nas,
Danielle Patucci,
The Angels of Light,
Girls At Our Best!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
The Barracudas,
Joy Division,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tomorrow,
Maurizio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harry Pussy,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
The Evens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Sheep,
Khruangbin,
Hot Snakes,
The Associates,
The Residents,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bob Dylan,
Godley & Creme,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.