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 Djibouti and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Wells,
Tommy Roe,
Deakin,
The Divine Comedy,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Grauzone,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Arthur Verocai,
Rites of Spring,
Dave Gahan,
Terry Callier,
Whodini,
The Star Department,
The Black Dice,
Unwound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Panda Bear,
Ronnie Foster,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Television Personalities,
Second Layer,
Nico,
The Red Krayola,
The Gladiators,
Quando Quango,
FM Einheit,
Robert Wyatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
The American Breed,
The Motions,
Pere Ubu,
Flash Fearless,
Groovy Waters,
Nils Olav,
Skaos,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fall,
Lakeside,
X-101,
Pierre Henry,
Accadde A,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Count Five,
Amazonics,
The Selecter,
Bootsy Collins,
Pantaleimon,
Rakim,
The Slits,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang of Four,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.