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 Benin and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fela Kuti to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sonic Youth,
Amon Düül II,
Flash Fearless,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Lydon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Liliput,
Monks,
Joyce Sims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cal Tjader,
The United States of America,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Standells,
Ludus,
D'Angelo,
Michelle Simonal,
Wire,
La Düsseldorf,
Shoche,
X-102,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Womack,
Kenny Larkin,
AZ,
Bad Manners,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sight & Sound,
Silicon Teens,
B.T. Express,
48th St. Collective,
Black Moon,
Radio Birdman,
Das Ding,
Gang Starr,
David McCallum,
E-Dancer,
Thee Headcoats,
Wings,
Althea and Donna,
MC5,
The American Breed,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bronski Beat,
Simply Red,
Mandrill,
The Neon Judgement,
Warren Ellis,
Pylon,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.