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 Senegal and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Mexico City and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ludus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Leaves,
New Order,
The Real Kids,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Traffic Nightmare,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Searchers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
KRS-One,
Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
Connie Case,
Rufus Thomas,
John Cale,
Marmalade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Flag,
The Smoke,
Shoche,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Derrick May,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric Dolphy,
Scott Walker,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
Fela Kuti,
Amon Düül II,
K-Klass,
Anakelly,
Clear Light,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Eric Copeland,
Skarface,
The Grass Roots,
Severed Heads,
Pole,
Donny Hathaway,
The J.B.'s,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Janne Schatter,
Delta 5,
The Star Department,
U.S. Maple,
Kerrie Biddell,
Reuben Wilson,
Wasted Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Archie Shepp,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Khruangbin,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.