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 Japan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 Jeru the Damaja to the disco 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Reagan Youth,
Lower 48,
Niagra,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Hood,
The Invisible,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hoover,
Inner City,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Groovy Waters,
Public Enemy,
The Mummies,
Stetsasonic,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Panda Bear,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rod Modell,
Minny Pops,
Interpol,
Letta Mbulu,
Chris & Cosey,
Rosa Yemen,
Organ,
The Music Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Half Japanese,
The Slackers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crispy Ambulance,
Slick Rick,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Toasters,
Pulsallama,
Dark Day,
Charles Mingus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Arcadia,
Bill Near,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
a-ha,
Eric Copeland,
AZ,
the Sonics,
Quadrant,
Arthur Verocai,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Association,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Bar-Kays,
Lungfish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.