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 Singapore and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar 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 Joe Smooth to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
The J.B.'s,
Silicon Teens,
Hasil Adkins,
Prince Buster,
Cluster,
Crash Course in Science,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythm & Sound,
Supertramp,
The Skatalites,
Brand Nubian,
Boz Scaggs,
Derrick May,
Grey Daturas,
Ponytail,
Quando Quango,
U.S. Maple,
Qualms,
The Beau Brummels,
Nico,
Chrome,
The Motions,
Blossom Toes,
Panda Bear,
Colin Newman,
the Association,
Malaria!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Vainqueur,
Electric Prunes,
The Selecter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minnie Riperton,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Busters,
Hoover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
T.S.O.L.,
Robert Görl,
Todd Terry,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harry Pussy,
Shuggie Otis,
Flash Fearless,
Roy Ayers,
The Dead C,
The Offenders,
Kenny Larkin,
Dawn Penn,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun City Girls,
Pet Shop Boys,
Monks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Loose Ends,
The Kinks,
Junior Murvin,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.