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 Sri Lanka and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dennis Brown to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Q and Not U,
This Heat,
Crime,
Magma,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Japan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aswad,
Nico,
Talk Talk,
Dorothy Ashby,
Carl Craig,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
Von Mondo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Motions,
The Misunderstood,
Peter and Kerry,
Fad Gadget,
Sällskapet,
E-Dancer,
Marcia Griffiths,
Graham Central Station,
Flipper,
Zero Boys,
Bill Near,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pierre Henry,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Absolute Body Control,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rufus Thomas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bluetip,
The Standells,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Teasers,
Accadde A,
Toni Rubio,
The Golliwogs,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reagan Youth,
Minor Threat,
Lightning Bolt,
Banda Bassotti,
Anthony Braxton,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Monochrome Set,
Goldenarms,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lindisfarne,
Joyce Sims,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.