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 South Africa and from Calgary.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Scratch Acid to the dance 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cal Tjader,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Little Man,
Jimmy McGriff,
Procol Harum,
The Names,
Average White Band,
Funkadelic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scientists,
Skriet,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Residents,
Harmonia,
Fear,
Mantronix,
Crooked Eye,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Janne Schatter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Standells,
Bluetip,
Quadrant,
Michelle Simonal,
Pantaleimon,
Suicide,
The Electric Prunes,
Das Ding,
Brass Construction,
Infiniti,
Pulsallama,
Japan,
Todd Rundgren,
Fad Gadget,
Deakin,
Metal Thangz,
The Doors,
Thee Headcoats,
Whodini,
Severed Heads,
X-Ray Spex,
Agent Orange,
Agitation Free,
Judy Mowatt,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lindisfarne,
Peter & Gordon,
Goldenarms,
Davy DMX,
Carl Craig,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.