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 Romania and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 DJ Style to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jandek,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Man Parrish,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Quantec,
Stereo Dub,
Fear,
Zapp,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Durutti Column,
Wings,
Davy DMX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Buzzcocks,
Masters at Work,
The Raincoats,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Howard Jones,
Ronan,
Neu!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scrapy,
The Techniques,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eddi Front,
Mission of Burma,
Symarip,
Patti Smith,
The Mojo Men,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Pus,
Camberwell Now,
Alton Ellis,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacques Brel,
Crime,
Joyce Sims,
Colin Newman,
CMW,
Kayak,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Guru Guru,
Black Sheep,
Suicide,
The Smiths,
DNA,
Big Daddy Kane,
Q65,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eurythmics,
Sugar Minott,
Funkadelic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Remains,
Bush Tetras,
Section 25,
Mo-Dettes,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.