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 Belarus and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Susan Cadogan to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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 Grass Roots,
Max Romeo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stetsasonic,
Average White Band,
The Vogues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Agent Orange,
Moebius,
Bluetip,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Grauzone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Japan,
Symarip,
Procol Harum,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
Pole,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eden Ahbez,
The Music Machine,
Faust,
Silicon Teens,
The Slackers,
Ituana,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Half Japanese,
Wolf Eyes,
Fugazi,
Simply Red,
Mad Mike,
Guru Guru,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pantaleimon,
Blake Baxter,
Index,
Reagan Youth,
Ultra Naté,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Schoolly D,
James White and The Blacks,
Easy Going,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sex Pistols,
Don Cherry,
Hardrive,
Yazoo,
The United States of America,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronnie Foster,
MC5,
Bad Manners,
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.