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 Botswana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the theremin 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 Grandmaster Flash to the disco 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiohead,
Blossom Toes,
Soul II Soul,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker,
Lyres,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Khruangbin,
The Mojo Men,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
Slick Rick,
Max Romeo,
Radio Birdman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fear,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sun City Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dennis Brown,
Thompson Twins,
Kerri Chandler,
The Seeds,
Gang of Four,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Icehouse,
Black Bananas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Detroit Cobras,
Barrington Levy,
John Cale,
Letta Mbulu,
David McCallum,
Organ,
The Angels of Light,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cybotron,
Cal Tjader,
Severed Heads,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
The J.B.'s,
The Young Rascals,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hardrive,
Cecil Taylor,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Leonard Cohen,
Country Teasers,
Henry Cow,
Technova,
The Vogues,
Lightning Bolt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.