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 Mali and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bang On A Can to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley 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?
Todd Terry,
Kayak,
Bluetip,
Nas,
Alison Limerick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Buckinghams,
ABBA,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eric B and Rakim,
Quando Quango,
The Sound,
The Victims,
Icehouse,
Brothers Johnson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scrapy,
Desert Stars,
L. Decosne,
Don Cherry,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
Pylon,
Joyce Sims,
Joe Finger,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Subhumans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Los Fastidios,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Crime,
Scientists,
Babytalk,
Alphaville,
The Cowsills,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerri Chandler,
The Busters,
Absolute Body Control,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Model 500,
Mark Hollis,
Lucky Dragons,
Pet Shop Boys,
Swans,
Duran Duran,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Frankie Knuckles,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Blossom Toes,
Scott Walker,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Infiniti,
Talk Talk,
Yusef Lateef,
Au Pairs,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.