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 Congo and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacob Miller to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Massinfluence,
The Barracudas,
Sonic Youth,
The Skatalites,
Pole,
The Motions,
Procol Harum,
The Blackbyrds,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Divine Comedy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Suicide,
Sister Nancy,
OOIOO,
Scion,
The Beau Brummels,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tomorrow,
The Mummies,
The Index,
X-102,
The Selecter,
The Sound,
The Residents,
Agitation Free,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Whodini,
Frankie Knuckles,
Can,
Crime,
Simply Red,
Wolf Eyes,
Robert Görl,
Unrelated Segments,
Todd Terry,
Aaron Thompson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nils Olav,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Wake,
Desert Stars,
Siglo XX,
Connie Case,
Blake Baxter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yellowson,
The Fire Engines,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
KRS-One,
Bluetip,
Tom Boy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Brass Construction,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.