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 Kiribati and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Gang Starr to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Standells. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Yusef Lateef,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jacques Brel,
Roxette,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Absolute Body Control,
Davy DMX,
Maurizio,
Minutemen,
Fela Kuti,
Essential Logic,
Neu!,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grauzone,
The Kinks,
The Zeros,
Derrick May,
Andrew Hill,
Organ,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bluetip,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Suburban Knight,
The Flesh Eaters,
One Last Wish,
Wire,
Bill Near,
Isaac Hayes,
Model 500,
Scrapy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DJ Sneak,
Radio Birdman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Interpol,
The Sonics,
The Cure,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
JFA,
June of 44,
The Searchers,
The Count Five,
John Coltrane,
Skriet,
Magma,
Pagans,
Lyres,
MC5,
The Fuzztones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Infiniti,
Boredoms,
Lakeside,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.