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 Ethiopia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marshall Jefferson to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar 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 synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
The Techniques,
Inner City,
Alton Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
New York Dolls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Scientists,
ABC,
a-ha,
Vainqueur,
Second Layer,
Pantytec,
Roger Hodgson,
Charles Mingus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gong,
The Count Five,
Pylon,
Delta 5,
Peter & Gordon,
Can,
The Leaves,
The Golliwogs,
Reuben Wilson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Franke,
Eric B and Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crooked Eye,
Eve St. Jones,
Outsiders,
The Offenders,
Black Pus,
LL Cool J,
Brass Construction,
Amon Düül II,
Aural Exciters,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Terry,
Mantronix,
Black Sheep,
Massinfluence,
Piero Umiliani,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Selecter,
Prince Buster,
The Five Americans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Au Pairs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bad Manners,
Alice Coltrane,
Country Teasers,
Black Bananas,
Talk Talk,
Scan 7,
T.S.O.L.,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.