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 Croatia and from London.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Depeche Mode to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jacques Brel,
Bill Near,
Infiniti,
Spoonie Gee,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fugs,
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
Erykah Badu,
D'Angelo,
Rites of Spring,
Marshall Jefferson,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
the Slits,
JFA,
Kevin Saunderson,
T. Rex,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
The Monochrome Set,
The Star Department,
Slave,
B.T. Express,
The Music Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Zero Boys,
New Order,
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Maleditus Sound,
Dawn Penn,
Barrington Levy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Oblivians,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
The Gap Band,
Drexciya,
Malaria!,
Marine Girls,
Patti Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Boz Scaggs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minny Pops,
Anakelly,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül II,
The Neon Judgement,
Fatback Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dead C,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
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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.