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 Vietnam and from Copenhagen.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Big Daddy Kane to the techno 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
The Moleskins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Trumans Water,
MDC,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dead Boys,
Schoolly D,
The Wake,
Eurythmics,
Crash Course in Science,
Rekid,
Sound Behaviour,
Outsiders,
Deakin,
Morten Harket,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mars,
The Index,
Johnny Clarke,
Reagan Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kevin Saunderson,
Josef K,
Make Up,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mandrill,
Alton Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Doors,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Toasters,
Brand Nubian,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Suicide,
Ossler,
New Order,
X-101,
Livin' Joy,
The Smoke,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blake Baxter,
Brick,
Soulsonic Force,
Royal Trux,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chris Corsano,
Max Romeo,
Deepchord,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.