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 Yemen and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sun City Girls to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Görl,
The Seeds,
John Holt,
Wolf Eyes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roger Hodgson,
Anthony Braxton,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
Bootsy Collins,
The Sonics,
The Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
The Electric Prunes,
Colin Newman,
Bad Manners,
JFA,
The Birthday Party,
Mission of Burma,
Ludus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Moss Icon,
Sam Rivers,
Al Stewart,
Underground Resistance,
Jacob Miller,
Be Bop Deluxe,
OOIOO,
Camberwell Now,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Symarip,
Skaos,
The Tremeloes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Parry Music,
The Skatalites,
Saccharine Trust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Dolphy,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Schoolly D,
Tim Buckley,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
The Velvet Underground,
Janne Schatter,
The Dirtbombs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echospace,
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.