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 St Lucia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Slits 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cramps,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tomorrow,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joe Finger,
Masters at Work,
Gang Green,
These Immortal Souls,
Aural Exciters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cybotron,
Bobby Byrd,
The Sonics,
Charles Mingus,
Jacques Brel,
Flash Fearless,
Eric Dolphy,
Porter Ricks,
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Brass Construction,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Agent Orange,
Stetsasonic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Monks,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
Shoche,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Starr,
Kerri Chandler,
Boredoms,
The Blues Magoos,
Archie Shepp,
Main Source,
Scott Walker,
The Grass Roots,
the Bar-Kays,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scion,
Joey Negro,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Angels of Light,
Roxy Music,
The Fuzztones,
Buzzcocks,
Audionom,
Desert Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Hood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Erykah Badu,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rod Modell,
The Neon Judgement,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.