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 Nicaragua and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the jazz 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dennis Brown,
Basic Channel,
Susan Cadogan,
Isaac Hayes,
Fluxion,
Von Mondo,
The Leaves,
Donald Byrd,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rekid,
the Normal,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stereo Dub,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry's Kids,
Surgeon,
Tropical Tobacco,
The United States of America,
Sister Nancy,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Skarface,
Tim Buckley,
Harry Pussy,
Mandrill,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
LL Cool J,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Black Dice,
Stiv Bators,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tom Boy,
Mission of Burma,
Swell Maps,
Shuggie Otis,
Depeche Mode,
Cymande,
Ten City,
Josef K,
Desert Stars,
Marvin Gaye,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Skatalites,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thompson Twins,
Wasted Youth,
The Busters,
The Trojans,
Bush Tetras,
Soul II Soul,
Blake Baxter,
X-102,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.