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 Nigeria and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Basic Channel to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 H. Thieme. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Remains,
Godley & Creme,
Ultimate Spinach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bobby Womack,
Franke,
The Gories,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Selecter,
Toni Rubio,
Agent Orange,
Flash Fearless,
Henry Cow,
Brick,
Ten City,
Sällskapet,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Smooth,
The Kinks,
Boz Scaggs,
Rufus Thomas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Suburban Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bob Dylan,
Sparks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ronnie Foster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siglo XX,
Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Section 25,
Bluetip,
a-ha,
Rapeman,
F. McDonald,
The Standells,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Lydon,
Josef K,
The Five Americans,
Minor Threat,
Silicon Teens,
MC5,
H. Thieme,
T.S.O.L.,
Skarface,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.