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 Moldova and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Derrick Morgan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Cymande,
Make Up,
Dave Gahan,
The Doors,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brass Construction,
Cheater Slicks,
B.T. Express,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
Mo-Dettes,
The New Christs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Technova,
Symarip,
Second Layer,
Johnny Clarke,
Letta Mbulu,
Moebius,
the Soft Cell,
Qualms,
Depeche Mode,
Todd Terry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Infiniti,
Interpol,
Marine Girls,
Rapeman,
EPMD,
Sugar Minott,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Boredoms,
Roy Ayers,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Franke,
Jandek,
Amon Düül II,
Leonard Cohen,
The Leaves,
Ludus,
Byron Stingily,
Ken Boothe,
Eden Ahbez,
The Saints,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Detroit Cobras,
A Certain Ratio,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Radiohead,
Chris Corsano,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.