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 Korea North and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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?
Gregory Isaacs,
Tres Demented,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Hasil Adkins,
Marc Almond,
Barry Ungar,
The Selecter,
The Birthday Party,
A Certain Ratio,
10cc,
Essential Logic,
Moss Icon,
Reuben Wilson,
Motorama,
Kas Product,
The Walker Brothers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Susan Cadogan,
F. McDonald,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Franke,
Barrington Levy,
The Techniques,
Monks,
Wolf Eyes,
Brick,
Crooked Eye,
John Holt,
Oneida,
EPMD,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nils Olav,
the Swans,
The Associates,
Nick Fraelich,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fugazi,
The Mummies,
X-102,
Jeff Mills,
The Fuzztones,
Joe Finger,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Quadrant,
Rotary Connection,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.