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 Libya and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the grime 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Cecil Taylor,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Piero Umiliani,
The Skatalites,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young,
Hashim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
Sun Ra,
Black Flag,
Television,
Bootsy Collins,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Womack,
Tommy Roe,
Sarah Menescal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Duran Duran,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hoover,
Das Ding,
The Tremeloes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Christie,
Marshall Jefferson,
Erasure,
The Gories,
John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rekid,
Mars,
Ponytail,
Yusef Lateef,
Masters at Work,
Monks,
Tubeway Army,
Flipper,
the Association,
Thompson Twins,
Jeff Lynne,
Excepter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rod Modell,
Eve St. Jones,
D'Angelo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Sherman,
Joensuu 1685,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Coltrane,
Yaz,
The Names,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erykah Badu,
Sex Pistols,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.