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 Rwanda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance 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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Theoretical Girls,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Five Americans,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonic Youth,
Yazoo,
Tim Buckley,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Stereo Dub,
Brass Construction,
Soulsonic Force,
Negative Approach,
Deadbeat,
Sight & Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Derrick May,
Black Pus,
Pierre Henry,
Saccharine Trust,
Gong,
Whodini,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kaleidoscope,
Sarah Menescal,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Rosa Yemen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
The American Breed,
The Motions,
Bronski Beat,
Jeff Mills,
The Misunderstood,
Goldenarms,
Mr. Review,
Lakeside,
Lou Christie,
Big Daddy Kane,
Howard Jones,
Agitation Free,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aaron Thompson,
Shuggie Otis,
Nico,
Oneida,
Maurizio,
Terry Callier,
Amon Düül II,
Reagan Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tres Demented,
The Slits,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.