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 Ireland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Frankie Knuckles to the rap 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Maurizio,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bang On A Can,
Chrome,
Subhumans,
Howard Jones,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pulsallama,
Blancmange,
Cameo,
MDC,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang of Four,
Oblivians,
Sound Behaviour,
The Sound,
This Heat,
Can,
Main Source,
The Gap Band,
Sun Ra,
FM Einheit,
Second Layer,
Minor Threat,
Qualms,
Sex Pistols,
Juan Atkins,
Iggy Pop,
Eric Copeland,
Flash Fearless,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terry Callier,
Soul Sonic Force,
Swell Maps,
Rosa Yemen,
John Cale,
Yaz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Monks,
Black Moon,
Alphaville,
Smog,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Altered Images,
Jerry's Kids,
Agitation Free,
Ornette Coleman,
Sällskapet,
T.S.O.L.,
The Grass Roots,
The Standells,
Cal Tjader,
Loose Ends,
Pole,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sixth Finger,
Nas,
Robert Hood,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.