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 Cyprus and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Deepchord to the jazz 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
The Pretty Things,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Associates,
Nirvana,
The Cowsills,
Chris & Cosey,
Nick Fraelich,
Mission of Burma,
Rapeman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Foxx,
Blossom Toes,
Technova,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magazine,
The Golliwogs,
The Moleskins,
Eden Ahbez,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jacob Miller,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Starr,
Fear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Matthew Halsall,
Todd Terry,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Move,
L. Decosne,
JFA,
The Smoke,
Derrick May,
Marc Almond,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Michelle Simonal,
Todd Rundgren,
Barrington Levy,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Stooges,
Bronski Beat,
Index,
Malaria!,
Mo-Dettes,
Anakelly,
Kaleidoscope,
The Shadows of Knight,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Mandrill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Neon Judgement,
Robert Hood,
CMW,
Unrelated Segments,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.