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 Palau and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Eric Dolphy 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Stereo Dub,
The Five Americans,
The Dead C,
Schoolly D,
Stiv Bators,
Alison Limerick,
Flash Fearless,
Ultra Naté,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
U.S. Maple,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pole,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fela Kuti,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
Boredoms,
Ponytail,
The Motions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Kas Product,
Rod Modell,
Freddie Wadling,
Fatback Band,
Reagan Youth,
John Lydon,
Mad Mike,
Zapp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Kinks,
the Sonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fortunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rotary Connection,
Moby Grape,
EPMD,
The Mojo Men,
Sun City Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Gong,
Negative Approach,
Radiohead,
D'Angelo,
Ossler,
David Axelrod,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fifty Foot Hose,
cv313,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tears for Fears,
Pagans,
Ludus,
Wire,
The Standells,
The Neon Judgement,
Sonny Sharrock,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.