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 Equatorial Guinea and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Schoolly D to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Aaron Thompson,
Todd Terry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Khruangbin,
Warsaw,
Gang Starr,
Maurizio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pere Ubu,
Tim Buckley,
Eric B and Rakim,
Unwound,
Lyres,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Ornette Coleman,
Negative Approach,
The Black Dice,
Rapeman,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Green,
Trumans Water,
Nas,
MC5,
Cymande,
Drive Like Jehu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fugs,
World's Most,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Glenn Branca,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Archie Shepp,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Delon & Dalcan,
Massinfluence,
the Germs,
X-102,
Cecil Taylor,
Deakin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Real Kids,
Sister Nancy,
Malaria!,
Subhumans,
Eve St. Jones,
Mars,
Quantec,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marmalade,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bluetip,
John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.