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 Jordan and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 Michelle Simonal to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Soft Machine,
Rotary Connection,
Joyce Sims,
Prince Buster,
Sparks,
The Pop Group,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Al Stewart,
Con Funk Shun,
Angry Samoans,
Crash Course in Science,
Scan 7,
The Selecter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Carl Craig,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The J.B.'s,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mars,
David McCallum,
Agitation Free,
The Modern Lovers,
Janne Schatter,
Ludus,
One Last Wish,
The United States of America,
Camberwell Now,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aural Exciters,
The Monks,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
The Moleskins,
D'Angelo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Offenders,
Nico,
Bobby Womack,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Laurel Aitken,
John Coltrane,
the Soft Cell,
Steve Hackett,
Mantronix,
Sällskapet,
Morten Harket,
Saccharine Trust,
The Mojo Men,
Robert Wyatt,
Junior Murvin,
Quantec,
U.S. Maple,
Surgeon,
The Birthday Party,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jacob Miller,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.