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 Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Zero Boys to the punk 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a sitar 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 mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Charles Mingus,
Maurizio,
Liliput,
Dead Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Prince Buster,
Godley & Creme,
New York Dolls,
The Gun Club,
Absolute Body Control,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
KRS-One,
Supertramp,
Stetsasonic,
Jerry's Kids,
Scion,
Brand Nubian,
World's Most,
Lightning Bolt,
Adolescents,
Babytalk,
Quando Quango,
Eden Ahbez,
Los Fastidios,
Tim Buckley,
The American Breed,
Marvin Gaye,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mandrill,
The Tremeloes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Slick Rick,
Joey Negro,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gories,
Dave Gahan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Selecter,
Mo-Dettes,
kango's stein massive,
Steve Hackett,
Hot Snakes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Amazonics,
Spoonie Gee,
Surgeon,
the Swans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Youth Brigade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crime,
Scott Walker,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.