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 Mali and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 Cheater Slicks to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Alice Coltrane,
The Doobie Brothers,
Niagra,
Marc Almond,
Clear Light,
The Associates,
World's Most,
Sam Rivers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Chris & Cosey,
Yaz,
Erykah Badu,
Electric Prunes,
Rapeman,
Minor Threat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The New Christs,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jacob Miller,
Cluster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mo-Dettes,
Brand Nubian,
Grey Daturas,
Michelle Simonal,
Blancmange,
Kurtis Blow,
Spandau Ballet,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Misunderstood,
Danielle Patucci,
Lindisfarne,
Joy Division,
Pierre Henry,
Ronnie Foster,
the Germs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roxy Music,
The Kinks,
Amon Düül,
Roy Ayers,
Fad Gadget,
James Chance & The Contortions,
China Crisis,
Japan,
Warren Ellis,
K-Klass,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Los Fastidios,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Last Poets,
Television Personalities,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roxette,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.