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 Pakistan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kayak to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Joe Smooth,
The Moody Blues,
Vladislav Delay,
Urselle,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang Green,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxette,
Organ,
Yellowson,
Lakeside,
The Monochrome Set,
Nas,
Heaven 17,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David Axelrod,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Matthew Halsall,
Nils Olav,
the Association,
Sparks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jandek,
Average White Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Supertramp,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cowsills,
Thee Headcoats,
Oneida,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cybotron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Harry Pussy,
Donald Byrd,
Erykah Badu,
Chris & Cosey,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
Mission of Burma,
Niagra,
The Raincoats,
The Young Rascals,
Sugar Minott,
Dawn Penn,
Technova,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Byron Stingily,
Skriet,
T. Rex,
Albert Ayler,
Malaria!,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Dennis Brown,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crooked Eye,
The Velvet Underground,
Dual Sessions,
kango's stein massive,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.