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 South Africa and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yaz to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sun City Girls,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare,
Bluetip,
The Slits,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brand Nubian,
Easy Going,
Isaac Hayes,
John Lydon,
CMW,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Glambeats Corp.,
FM Einheit,
Brick,
Massinfluence,
Metal Thangz,
Soft Cell,
Terry Callier,
Godley & Creme,
Dead Boys,
Moebius,
Pere Ubu,
H. Thieme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Arcadia,
Jawbox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Intrusion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
Rosa Yemen,
Camouflage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
The Standells,
X-102,
Sugar Minott,
Fluxion,
Unrelated Segments,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flipper,
The Wake,
Section 25,
Boz Scaggs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lakeside,
Lou Christie,
Monolake,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.