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 Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Standells to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Martian. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Essential Logic,
Jeff Mills,
the Slits,
Loose Ends,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Durutti Column,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gories,
Bluetip,
Absolute Body Control,
Grandmaster Flash,
Can,
Mark Hollis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kas Product,
The American Breed,
The Fuzztones,
Roxy Music,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Clear Light,
Susan Cadogan,
The Cure,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
The Remains,
Cameo,
Davy DMX,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Janne Schatter,
Cymande,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
Silicon Teens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
Y Pants,
Panda Bear,
Sällskapet,
Mo-Dettes,
Reuben Wilson,
LL Cool J,
Kenny Larkin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Derrick May,
Camouflage,
the Swans,
Rosa Yemen,
Camberwell Now,
Joe Smooth,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.