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 Israel and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
D'Angelo,
Siglo XX,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris & Cosey,
PIL,
Moby Grape,
Patti Smith,
Davy DMX,
The Gladiators,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minutemen,
Yazoo,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Machine,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Happenings,
Funkadelic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hot Snakes,
The Leaves,
Flipper,
Kerri Chandler,
The Toasters,
Ossler,
Ralphi Rosario,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donny Hathaway,
The Count Five,
DJ Style,
Goldenarms,
The Five Americans,
Zero Boys,
Model 500,
EPMD,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bad Manners,
Erykah Badu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Byrd,
Guru Guru,
Reagan Youth,
Hashim,
Television,
Eve St. Jones,
Scratch Acid,
Anthony Braxton,
Supertramp,
Mark Hollis,
Animal Collective,
Fatback Band,
Joe Smooth,
Pagans,
La Düsseldorf,
Colin Newman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.