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 Togo and from New York.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kool Moe Dee to the jazz 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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonic Youth,
The United States of America,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fatback Band,
Metal Thangz,
The Smiths,
Jacques Brel,
Yusef Lateef,
EPMD,
B.T. Express,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sonny Sharrock,
Simply Red,
Marine Girls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Joe Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
Zero Boys,
Skarface,
The Index,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Section 25,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Theoretical Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Trojans,
The Residents,
Idris Muhammad,
Joy Division,
The Seeds,
The Gun Club,
Bronski Beat,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gichy Dan,
Kayak,
Liliput,
Whodini,
Byron Stingily,
Minutemen,
Brand Nubian,
Rekid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moss Icon,
The Five Americans,
Q and Not U,
Rufus Thomas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grey Daturas,
Depeche Mode,
Deadbeat,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Deepchord,
Toni Rubio,
The Sound,
Qualms,
Chris Corsano,
Dawn Penn,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.