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 Grenada and from Houston.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 chamberlin 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 Dual Sessions to the grunge 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
The Names,
The Count Five,
the Slits,
Aswad,
Kurtis Blow,
Zapp,
Rekid,
Sex Pistols,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantaleimon,
One Last Wish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Average White Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Graham Central Station,
Rufus Thomas,
Gang Starr,
Donny Hathaway,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quando Quango,
Davy DMX,
Public Enemy,
Magma,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Unwound,
Icehouse,
John Foxx,
Subhumans,
Ronnie Foster,
Suicide,
World's Most,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Warsaw,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pagans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
E-Dancer,
Warren Ellis,
Bauhaus,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Hutcherson,
MDC,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Mills,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Womack,
Crash Course in Science,
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.