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 United Kingdom and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Moebius to the grime 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
48th St. Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Donny Hathaway,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moss Icon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sam Rivers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Slave,
The Pretty Things,
Infiniti,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Surgeon,
Tomorrow,
Sarah Menescal,
Arab on Radar,
Scrapy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Normal,
The Velvet Underground,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crime,
The Knickerbockers,
Tres Demented,
Reuben Wilson,
Mo-Dettes,
Janne Schatter,
Gabor Szabo,
Masters at Work,
The Selecter,
Swans,
Avey Tare,
Jeff Mills,
The Cowsills,
L. Decosne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Neon Judgement,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minny Pops,
Minutemen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Skatalites,
The Move,
Nick Fraelich,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Althea and Donna,
The Litter,
Man Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sandy B,
Derrick May,
Ice-T,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.