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 Jamaica and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Gastr Del Sol to the disco 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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smoke,
Negative Approach,
Aswad,
Neil Young,
Tears for Fears,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Schoolly D,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Boogie Down Productions,
Supertramp,
Young Marble Giants,
The Black Dice,
the Germs,
a-ha,
Skriet,
Lucky Dragons,
the Association,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Sneak,
kango's stein massive,
Yellowson,
EPMD,
Nas,
Kerri Chandler,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Pere Ubu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Boz Scaggs,
The Martian,
China Crisis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Easy Going,
Jeff Mills,
Tim Buckley,
L. Decosne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ohio Players,
Animal Collective,
Joyce Sims,
Josef K,
Donald Byrd,
Deepchord,
Yazoo,
Minor Threat,
Fluxion,
Man Parrish,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.