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 Japan and from Milan.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 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 Massinfluence to the jazz 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Delta 5,
Flipper,
Joensuu 1685,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
John Lydon,
Young Marble Giants,
The Beau Brummels,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
UT,
The Young Rascals,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
Bush Tetras,
Boredoms,
X-Ray Spex,
Eurythmics,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pylon,
Barry Ungar,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gladiators,
Jeru the Damaja,
F. McDonald,
The Birthday Party,
Prince Buster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fall,
Patti Smith,
Throbbing Gristle,
Stockholm Monsters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young,
Big Daddy Kane,
Zero Boys,
New York Dolls,
Animal Collective,
Ossler,
The Cure,
Idris Muhammad,
Bang On A Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Mantronix,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soft Machine,
Mars,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric Copeland,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Fania All-Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Sight & Sound,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.