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 Indonesia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Blake Baxter to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Cameo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shuggie Otis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kaleidoscope,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Minor Threat,
Newcleus,
Symarip,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jacob Miller,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Erykah Badu,
Brand Nubian,
Smog,
Oneida,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Inner City,
Sparks,
Vladislav Delay,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alison Limerick,
Fugazi,
Ronnie Foster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Funkadelic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Teasers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Wake,
X-Ray Spex,
Jesper Dahlback,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blancmange,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Sneak,
The Busters,
Agitation Free,
Scion,
Ituana,
John Coltrane,
Sight & Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Clarke,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
These Immortal Souls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Stereo Dub,
the Slits,
Angry Samoans,
the Germs,
Slave,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.