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 Saudi Arabia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Shanghai.
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 guitar 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 The Seeds to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Young Rascals,
Con Funk Shun,
Banda Bassotti,
Donald Byrd,
Unrelated Segments,
Isaac Hayes,
Ponytail,
Kayak,
The Pretty Things,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
Grandmaster Flash,
E-Dancer,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soft Machine,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Aswad,
Khruangbin,
Grauzone,
The Fugs,
Von Mondo,
Joe Smooth,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
UT,
Scientists,
Accadde A,
Kenny Larkin,
Television Personalities,
Trumans Water,
Roy Ayers,
Freddie Wadling,
Rotary Connection,
D'Angelo,
New Order,
Siglo XX,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Dirtbombs,
The Beau Brummels,
Interpol,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
48th St. Collective,
Soulsonic Force,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Pop Group,
Mark Hollis,
Tommy Roe,
The Misunderstood,
Q and Not U,
Donny Hathaway,
Bad Manners,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.