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 Costa Rica and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Lalo Schifrin to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Amon Düül II,
Heaven 17,
Royal Trux,
Y Pants,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
ABBA,
Alton Ellis,
Camberwell Now,
Sixth Finger,
Zero Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sarah Menescal,
The Offenders,
Gang Green,
Basic Channel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Matthew Bourne,
Althea and Donna,
The Standells,
Absolute Body Control,
Fatback Band,
Icehouse,
Warren Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Schoolly D,
LL Cool J,
Rod Modell,
Marmalade,
UT,
Scan 7,
Chrome,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Trojans,
Bootsy Collins,
Adolescents,
Metal Thangz,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
Clear Light,
Marine Girls,
PIL,
The Red Krayola,
Jimmy McGriff,
T.S.O.L.,
Moby Grape,
Traffic Nightmare,
Outsiders,
The Skatalites,
Dennis Brown,
The Associates,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.