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 Sierra Leone and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soulsonic Force to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Das Ding,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gap Band,
Dual Sessions,
Loose Ends,
Matthew Halsall,
Eyeless In Gaza,
F. McDonald,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wire,
Rufus Thomas,
Brass Construction,
Tomorrow,
Joyce Sims,
Kayak,
Stereo Dub,
John Lydon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Arcadia,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Circle Jerks,
Godley & Creme,
The Pop Group,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultra Naté,
B.T. Express,
Organ,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
Todd Terry,
Frankie Knuckles,
Matthew Bourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Marshall Jefferson,
a-ha,
The Residents,
Bush Tetras,
Cymande,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
LL Cool J,
Monks,
Bauhaus,
48th St. Collective,
Vainqueur,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Mark Hollis,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Angels of Light,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yusef Lateef,
Stiv Bators,
Shuggie Otis,
Popol Vuh,
The Cramps,
Fugazi,
Man Parrish,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.