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 Ukraine and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Cybotron to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ornette Coleman,
The Smiths,
Kaleidoscope,
The Saints,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Dead C,
B.T. Express,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Green,
Tubeway Army,
Barry Ungar,
The Detroit Cobras,
Avey Tare,
Pantaleimon,
Ten City,
Q65,
Circle Jerks,
Alton Ellis,
Skriet,
Lou Reed,
Ronnie Foster,
John Lydon,
Marvin Gaye,
Pussy Galore,
The Barracudas,
The Seeds,
OOIOO,
Pylon,
CMW,
Yaz,
Crash Course in Science,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Index,
Adolescents,
The Monks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wasted Youth,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Tropical Tobacco,
Outsiders,
Swell Maps,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Sheep,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harmonia,
Althea and Donna,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
R.M.O.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Massinfluence,
Jandek,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Faraquet,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.