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 India and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Joey Negro to the techno 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minnie Riperton,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scientists,
Joey Negro,
Minny Pops,
Metal Thangz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Janne Schatter,
Franke,
Leonard Cohen,
AZ,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Khruangbin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Letta Mbulu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fatback Band,
The Litter,
Gang Starr,
Adolescents,
Cal Tjader,
Parry Music,
Easy Going,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Avey Tare,
Sight & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Soul II Soul,
Alphaville,
Aswad,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Harmonia,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cure,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Outsiders,
Godley & Creme,
Ronan,
Marvin Gaye,
Procol Harum,
The Fortunes,
Tim Buckley,
Donald Byrd,
The Fugs,
The United States of America,
The Beau Brummels,
Marine Girls,
The Offenders,
Make Up,
Panda Bear,
the Bar-Kays,
Electric Light Orchestra,
This Heat,
Yaz,
the Slits,
Q65,
David Axelrod,
The Angels of Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.