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 Latvia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Barry Ungar to the funk 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Freddie Wadling,
Monks,
Wings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gabor Szabo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mark Hollis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Buckinghams,
The Red Krayola,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joensuu 1685,
The Star Department,
The Grass Roots,
The Modern Lovers,
New Order,
The Black Dice,
Tim Buckley,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moody Blues,
Sun Ra,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Chris Corsano,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Axelrod,
Nils Olav,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fugs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Green,
Wasted Youth,
Boredoms,
Quadrant,
Jeff Lynne,
Letta Mbulu,
Hashim,
Piero Umiliani,
Model 500,
Terry Callier,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Wyatt,
Faust,
Crispian St. Peters,
LL Cool J,
Sight & Sound,
The Kinks,
The Blackbyrds,
The Neon Judgement,
Neu!,
Cybotron,
Inner City,
Pussy Galore,
Anthony Braxton,
Ten City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.