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 United States and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 Cal Tjader to the grime 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Bananas,
Archie Shepp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scratch Acid,
Kenny Larkin,
the Soft Cell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Prince Buster,
Pylon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brand Nubian,
Camouflage,
Guru Guru,
The Dead C,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-101,
Pulsallama,
The Electric Prunes,
Marc Almond,
Livin' Joy,
Newcleus,
Scrapy,
Blake Baxter,
Con Funk Shun,
Minor Threat,
Kas Product,
Moby Grape,
Fear,
This Heat,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
The Cramps,
Ronnie Foster,
Niagra,
Soul Sonic Force,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Symarip,
Brick,
Jeff Lynne,
Magma,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Motions,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Starr,
The Golliwogs,
Tres Demented,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Index,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Anakelly,
David Axelrod,
Bang On A Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
Sun Ra,
Moss Icon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
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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.