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 Belize and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 ABC to the jazz 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Starr,
Morten Harket,
Scientists,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed,
Brick,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Shadows of Knight,
EPMD,
Hasil Adkins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Vladislav Delay,
June Days,
Guru Guru,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
Wasted Youth,
Rekid,
Bronski Beat,
Country Teasers,
Pulsallama,
Ralphi Rosario,
One Last Wish,
Ronan,
Ice-T,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Real Kids,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brothers Johnson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantytec,
Eric Copeland,
Barbara Tucker,
Ornette Coleman,
Mark Hollis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Anakelly,
The Saints,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rapeman,
Fluxion,
Dark Day,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
The Gun Club,
Scion,
Supertramp,
Neil Young,
The Selecter,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Litter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.