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 Cyprus and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Roy Ayers to the crunk 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Drexciya,
kango's stein massive,
Altered Images,
OOIOO,
the Germs,
Dead Boys,
Schoolly D,
Mo-Dettes,
ABBA,
The Sonics,
H. Thieme,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang Starr,
T. Rex,
Nils Olav,
Marvin Gaye,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bronski Beat,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare,
Nick Fraelich,
La Düsseldorf,
The Techniques,
The Alarm Clocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter & Gordon,
Camouflage,
The Blues Magoos,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Country Teasers,
David McCallum,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Names,
Marmalade,
Animal Collective,
Cameo,
Neil Young,
Boredoms,
Scott Walker,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Young Rascals,
Nico,
Janne Schatter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mandrill,
Lower 48,
The Red Krayola,
Bad Manners,
Procol Harum,
Brass Construction,
The American Breed,
Darondo,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.