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 Kosovo and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the electroclash 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Ituana,
Motorama,
Dave Gahan,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bluetip,
Althea and Donna,
T.S.O.L.,
Tears for Fears,
Dual Sessions,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kerri Chandler,
The Invisible,
Barbara Tucker,
U.S. Maple,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Quando Quango,
Radio Birdman,
E-Dancer,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lindisfarne,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Pus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Panda Bear,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Arab on Radar,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Masters at Work,
DNA,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
Minutemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fatback Band,
The New Christs,
Hasil Adkins,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Second Layer,
Jacob Miller,
Mo-Dettes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Anthony Braxton,
Girls At Our Best!,
Adolescents,
The Slits,
Harpers Bizarre,
Siglo XX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.