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 Niger and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hoover to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '60s 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 Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Henry Cow,
Steve Hackett,
Rites of Spring,
Pulsallama,
Neil Young,
T.S.O.L.,
Main Source,
The Mummies,
James White and The Blacks,
MC5,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Guru Guru,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stetsasonic,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Babytalk,
Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Harmonia,
Agent Orange,
Barry Ungar,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grey Daturas,
Donald Byrd,
Depeche Mode,
Yazoo,
EPMD,
The Grass Roots,
Essential Logic,
Tom Boy,
T. Rex,
Mission of Burma,
Byron Stingily,
Joensuu 1685,
Mark Hollis,
Wolf Eyes,
Wire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Swell Maps,
Liliput,
Piero Umiliani,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Tremeloes,
Visage,
Jacob Miller,
48th St. Collective,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
Black Pus,
Panda Bear,
Drexciya,
Arab on Radar,
Massinfluence,
Erasure,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unwound,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.