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 Belarus and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rotary Connection to the rap 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
Organ,
Mr. Review,
The Count Five,
Technova,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
The Sound,
Lou Reed,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sparks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Half Japanese,
Vladislav Delay,
Joensuu 1685,
World's Most,
The Litter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Theoretical Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Babytalk,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pagans,
Barbara Tucker,
Mark Hollis,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dorothy Ashby,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sandy B,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
The Stooges,
Johnny Osbourne,
H. Thieme,
Aswad,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Blues Magoos,
The Blackbyrds,
The Music Machine,
Mo-Dettes,
Nils Olav,
Dave Gahan,
The Zeros,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brand Nubian,
Essential Logic,
The Evens,
Ponytail,
Eden Ahbez,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Association,
Godley & Creme,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.