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 Mauritania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ituana to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Shuggie Otis,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronnie Foster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marcia Griffiths,
MDC,
Cameo,
The Wake,
Albert Ayler,
Niagra,
Davy DMX,
Max Romeo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alphaville,
B.T. Express,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cheater Slicks,
Rosa Yemen,
Schoolly D,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Reagan Youth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Make Up,
Section 25,
Thee Headcoats,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Clear Light,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fuzztones,
Rites of Spring,
Motorama,
Neil Young,
The Dead C,
June of 44,
This Heat,
E-Dancer,
The Smoke,
Crime,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yazoo,
DJ Sneak,
ABC,
Marmalade,
DNA,
Scratch Acid,
Rekid,
Judy Mowatt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter & Gordon,
Eric Copeland,
Erasure,
Johnny Clarke,
Soft Cell,
Wally Richardson,
Brass Construction,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.