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 Israel and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Ice-T to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Moss Icon,
Q and Not U,
Wasted Youth,
Scion,
Can,
Ultimate Spinach,
Iggy Pop,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
The Tremeloes,
Letta Mbulu,
Kenny Larkin,
Sun Ra,
R.M.O.,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Grass Roots,
Echospace,
Duran Duran,
Fear,
Judy Mowatt,
Bluetip,
Schoolly D,
Hashim,
T.S.O.L.,
Eddi Front,
Mr. Review,
New Age Steppers,
The Litter,
Maurizio,
The Sound,
Khruangbin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marc Almond,
Hoover,
Joyce Sims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pagans,
The Durutti Column,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The United States of America,
Sister Nancy,
The Stooges,
Rapeman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Negative Approach,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fatback Band,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Index,
Dark Day,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cure,
The Martian,
Glambeats Corp.,
Youth Brigade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.