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 Burkina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lakeside to the disco 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hasil Adkins,
Duran Duran,
The Knickerbockers,
Scion,
Absolute Body Control,
Yaz,
Slave,
Moby Grape,
Alton Ellis,
Cecil Taylor,
Model 500,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Blake Baxter,
Josef K,
Yazoo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flipper,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
Symarip,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Suicide,
Albert Ayler,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter and Kerry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Byron Stingily,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Germs,
Chrome,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Buzzcocks,
R.M.O.,
The Happenings,
John Holt,
Matthew Bourne,
Junior Murvin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Terry,
Heaven 17,
Al Stewart,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fugazi,
The Saints,
PIL,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Silicon Teens,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Japan,
Quando Quango,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Oneida,
The New Christs,
Black Moon,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.