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 Cambodia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 EPMD to the grime 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Sun City Girls,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Litter,
The Evens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Anakelly,
The Stooges,
Depeche Mode,
The Names,
The Beau Brummels,
Danielle Patucci,
Faraquet,
Magma,
Reuben Wilson,
Negative Approach,
Metal Thangz,
The Blues Magoos,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Detroit Cobras,
La Düsseldorf,
Dead Boys,
Khruangbin,
Panda Bear,
Moby Grape,
The Cowsills,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warren Ellis,
The Wake,
Stockholm Monsters,
Accadde A,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The United States of America,
Silicon Teens,
Soul Sonic Force,
Public Enemy,
The Five Americans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amazonics,
Tom Boy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Glenn Branca,
Matthew Bourne,
Shoche,
Monolake,
Technova,
Electric Prunes,
Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Gories,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quantec,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.