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 Azerbaijan and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Accadde A to the grunge 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Beasts of Bourbon 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?
Slave,
D'Angelo,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Martian,
Sixth Finger,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angry Samoans,
Kas Product,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Wally Richardson,
The Detroit Cobras,
DJ Sneak,
Bill Wells,
Donny Hathaway,
UT,
New Order,
Young Marble Giants,
Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Roger Hodgson,
The Searchers,
Black Sheep,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Babytalk,
Joe Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
Groovy Waters,
JFA,
Wings,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gong,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hashim,
Malaria!,
Janne Schatter,
Crispy Ambulance,
Morten Harket,
The Black Dice,
The Walker Brothers,
Althea and Donna,
Tomorrow,
Pagans,
Animal Collective,
X-101,
The Fortunes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crash Course in Science,
Cameo,
Pantytec,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
The Monks,
The Pretty Things,
the Germs,
Zero Boys,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.