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 Benin and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Second Layer to the disco 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Anthony Braxton,
The Fugs,
The Modern Lovers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Peter and Kerry,
10cc,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Moleskins,
Joey Negro,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Remains,
Bang On A Can,
The Stooges,
The Gories,
Peter & Gordon,
Loose Ends,
Theoretical Girls,
David Bowie,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Seeds,
Donald Byrd,
Jeff Lynne,
Minnie Riperton,
Eric Dolphy,
Joe Finger,
Alice Coltrane,
Youth Brigade,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scan 7,
Altered Images,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Guru Guru,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Average White Band,
Mad Mike,
Drexciya,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Fad Gadget,
Popol Vuh,
Electric Prunes,
Silicon Teens,
Darondo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Shuggie Otis,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
The Walker Brothers,
The Doors,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Mars,
the Swans,
The Pop Group,
Hasil Adkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Spandau Ballet,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.