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 Comoros and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gang Starr to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
the Sonics,
Letta Mbulu,
Cybotron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tubeway Army,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
T.S.O.L.,
Cluster,
Thompson Twins,
Agent Orange,
AZ,
Graham Central Station,
Simply Red,
Tears for Fears,
New York Dolls,
Ludus,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Monks,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül,
Animal Collective,
Mars,
DNA,
New Order,
Absolute Body Control,
Public Enemy,
Swell Maps,
Todd Terry,
Bill Wells,
The Pretty Things,
Outsiders,
Joey Negro,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sex Pistols,
Albert Ayler,
Bang On A Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jesper Dahlback,
Underground Resistance,
the Fania All-Stars,
Stetsasonic,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bizarre Inc.,
Frankie Knuckles,
Unrelated Segments,
Stereo Dub,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dead C,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Pus,
Pierre Henry,
The Stooges,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.