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 Chad and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Doobie Brothers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cameo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Skatalites,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ludus,
Tubeway Army,
Yellowson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Victims,
Wings,
Joey Negro,
The Beau Brummels,
Cecil Taylor,
Pylon,
F. McDonald,
Junior Murvin,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Associates,
The Motions,
The Litter,
Flash Fearless,
Drexciya,
JFA,
Chris & Cosey,
The Move,
Sex Pistols,
Massinfluence,
The Golliwogs,
Sam Rivers,
Marvin Gaye,
The Tremeloes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ornette Coleman,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Harmonia,
the Fania All-Stars,
OOIOO,
Zero Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Standells,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
CMW,
Funkadelic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hot Snakes,
Blake Baxter,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Bang On A Can,
The Slackers,
Aloha Tigers,
Skriet,
Public Enemy,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.