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 Brazil and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Television to the jazz 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
Joe Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Monks,
The Invisible,
Thee Headcoats,
Zero Boys,
The Skatalites,
MC5,
Hasil Adkins,
Echospace,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radio Birdman,
Joy Division,
Moby Grape,
Derrick Morgan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Interpol,
Pussy Galore,
The Kinks,
The Slits,
Icehouse,
The J.B.'s,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül II,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Bourne,
Rakim,
Little Man,
The Count Five,
Depeche Mode,
Loose Ends,
Carl Craig,
the Bar-Kays,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erykah Badu,
Alton Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
A Certain Ratio,
X-102,
Rekid,
The Golliwogs,
The Remains,
Blancmange,
Dual Sessions,
Dead Boys,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Byron Stingily,
Janne Schatter,
Harmonia,
Yusef Lateef,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Idris Muhammad,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.