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 Somalia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Andrew Hill to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Flag,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
FM Einheit,
UT,
Lou Reed,
Silicon Teens,
The Busters,
Toni Rubio,
The Modern Lovers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
U.S. Maple,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marmalade,
Rakim,
The Slits,
The Kinks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nils Olav,
the Sonics,
Rod Modell,
Ornette Coleman,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
PIL,
The Doors,
Lee Hazlewood,
Whodini,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pere Ubu,
Minor Threat,
Half Japanese,
David Axelrod,
Fugazi,
Fat Boys,
The J.B.'s,
Pantytec,
Public Enemy,
Theoretical Girls,
Gang Starr,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Last Poets,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Light Orchestra,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scion,
The Five Americans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Delta 5,
the Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Yusef Lateef,
Ituana,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.