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 Romania and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 X-101 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Simply Red,
Ice-T,
Alphaville,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DJ Sneak,
Cluster,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Minutemen,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T. Rex,
Jesper Dahlback,
Desert Stars,
The Knickerbockers,
Danielle Patucci,
Lalo Schifrin,
The American Breed,
Wings,
cv313,
Schoolly D,
The Grass Roots,
The Black Dice,
Niagra,
Slick Rick,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lucky Dragons,
Y Pants,
The Human League,
David Axelrod,
Loose Ends,
These Immortal Souls,
Cameo,
Hoover,
Gichy Dan,
Pantytec,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Starr,
The Monochrome Set,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Arcadia,
Hardrive,
Deepchord,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Television,
Lalann,
Shuggie Otis,
The Evens,
Surgeon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Standells,
Qualms,
Flash Fearless,
Deadbeat,
Peter & Gordon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.