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 Guinea and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jeff Mills to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Jacques Brel,
Ossler,
Danielle Patucci,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Soulsonic Force,
Quadrant,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ohio Players,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Judy Mowatt,
Y Pants,
Easy Going,
Prince Buster,
Thompson Twins,
Moss Icon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joe Finger,
Morten Harket,
Brand Nubian,
Scratch Acid,
Peter and Kerry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funky Four + One,
The Vogues,
kango's stein massive,
Supertramp,
Guru Guru,
Shuggie Otis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-101,
Skriet,
Qualms,
Avey Tare,
The Blues Magoos,
Echospace,
Monks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Make Up,
Sister Nancy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Infiniti,
Quando Quango,
Interpol,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Newcleus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Niagra,
Reuben Wilson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Derrick Morgan,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.