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 Kazakhstan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Freddie Wadling,
Johnny Clarke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Techniques,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Byrd,
Tim Buckley,
Underground Resistance,
Scientists,
Ultra Naté,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Trojans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Mills,
Gregory Isaacs,
Public Enemy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Moon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Altered Images,
Fela Kuti,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers,
The Young Rascals,
Alice Coltrane,
Skaos,
Todd Terry,
Fatback Band,
Hoover,
Jawbox,
Toni Rubio,
EPMD,
Bronski Beat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rosa Yemen,
MC5,
Adolescents,
Gang of Four,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Letta Mbulu,
ABBA,
The Slackers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light,
Funky Four + One,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Görl,
Easy Going,
CMW,
Don Cherry,
Liliput,
Gang Starr,
Stiv Bators,
Erykah Badu,
Anakelly,
Pantaleimon,
Aural Exciters,
Maurizio,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.