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 Syria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 kango's stein massive to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Slave,
Brand Nubian,
Zero Boys,
Robert Hood,
Piero Umiliani,
Trumans Water,
Funkadelic,
Kurtis Blow,
The Standells,
Fear,
Black Flag,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Smog,
Godley & Creme,
Ponytail,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Agitation Free,
Crime,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
H. Thieme,
The Knickerbockers,
Jacques Brel,
Mad Mike,
The Evens,
The Misunderstood,
Aaron Thompson,
Index,
Livin' Joy,
Pagans,
Man Parrish,
Organ,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Buckinghams,
Eric Copeland,
Matthew Halsall,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Moleskins,
T.S.O.L.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
T. Rex,
Wasted Youth,
Warsaw,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Womack,
Metal Thangz,
Quando Quango,
Section 25,
Neu!,
Bob Dylan,
Steve Hackett,
Minnie Riperton,
The Trojans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Harmonia,
AZ,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Siglo XX,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.