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 Venezuela and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Joe Finger to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
Pantaleimon,
The Red Krayola,
cv313,
The Monks,
Goldenarms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter and Kerry,
Ossler,
Crispy Ambulance,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eli Mardock,
The Cure,
Glenn Branca,
Sexual Harrassment,
Yazoo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
the Bar-Kays,
Warren Ellis,
Junior Murvin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Morten Harket,
Black Bananas,
Bush Tetras,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vainqueur,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barbara Tucker,
The Knickerbockers,
Derrick Morgan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lindisfarne,
Sparks,
Kenny Larkin,
Cecil Taylor,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
Shuggie Otis,
The Golliwogs,
Infiniti,
The Fortunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pagans,
The Fugs,
The Dead C,
Drexciya,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Isaac Hayes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Japan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.