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 Angola and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fatback Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Theoretical Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ronnie Foster,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Selecter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Motorama,
The Misunderstood,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eric Copeland,
Judy Mowatt,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
kango's stein massive,
48th St. Collective,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Byrd,
Alphaville,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Graham Central Station,
Ten City,
Nas,
Pylon,
Angry Samoans,
Essential Logic,
Skarface,
the Sonics,
Circle Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Human League,
John Foxx,
Visage,
Quando Quango,
Faust,
MC5,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Carl Craig,
The Fugs,
Derrick May,
the Association,
Niagra,
Sister Nancy,
Anthony Braxton,
Trumans Water,
Au Pairs,
DJ Sneak,
Desert Stars,
Index,
The Litter,
Harry Pussy,
The New Christs,
These Immortal Souls,
New York Dolls,
Reagan Youth,
Lakeside,
Parry Music,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.