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 Costa Rica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Joey Negro to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Hood,
Joe Finger,
Neil Young,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eden Ahbez,
Excepter,
Marvin Gaye,
Graham Central Station,
Neu!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dark Day,
The Saints,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shoche,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Clear Light,
The Golliwogs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Supertramp,
Animal Collective,
Lee Hazlewood,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Smog,
The Pretty Things,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marine Girls,
Ituana,
Todd Terry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Robert Wyatt,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Bananas,
Mark Hollis,
Fatback Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Grass Roots,
Bob Dylan,
Black Sheep,
Gang Starr,
X-102,
Funky Four + One,
Pulsallama,
Ultravox,
Rotary Connection,
World's Most,
Ronnie Foster,
Depeche Mode,
Suicide,
Wings,
Crooked Eye,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.