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 Togo 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Cecil Taylor to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
The Mummies,
Warsaw,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Idris Muhammad,
Heaven 17,
Jesper Dahlback,
Audionom,
Andrew Hill,
Dark Day,
Intrusion,
Joensuu 1685,
The Moleskins,
The Invisible,
The Gladiators,
In Retrospect,
Second Layer,
Los Fastidios,
The Young Rascals,
Q and Not U,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skriet,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ten City,
Jeru the Damaja,
Brand Nubian,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suburban Knight,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Black Dice,
Dorothy Ashby,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
OOIOO,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slick Rick,
Quantec,
The Fugs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pussy Galore,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Red Krayola,
R.M.O.,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Christie,
Deepchord,
Dual Sessions,
Sandy B,
Grey Daturas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Flash Fearless,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
Arab on Radar,
Danielle Patucci,
Fatback Band,
Tubeway Army,
Dennis Brown,
Y Pants,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.