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 Australia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 EPMD to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Eli Mardock,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ten City,
Roy Ayers,
Ultra Naté,
Skarface,
Motorama,
Accadde A,
The Skatalites,
The Vogues,
Inner City,
Porter Ricks,
Gong,
Minutemen,
Joe Finger,
Black Flag,
Deakin,
Ornette Coleman,
a-ha,
Rekid,
Rotary Connection,
Brand Nubian,
Rites of Spring,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
La Düsseldorf,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Agent Orange,
Todd Rundgren,
Rosa Yemen,
Leonard Cohen,
The Residents,
Albert Ayler,
Nik Kershaw,
Lower 48,
One Last Wish,
Ossler,
Zapp,
The Angels of Light,
Banda Bassotti,
Derrick Morgan,
10cc,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
This Heat,
The Detroit Cobras,
Simply Red,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
Fatback Band,
Tim Buckley,
Iggy Pop,
Flipper,
48th St. Collective,
Archie Shepp,
Connie Case,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.