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 Iraq and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Association to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Fear,
Eric Dolphy,
Dennis Brown,
Talk Talk,
The Skatalites,
Isaac Hayes,
Bang On A Can,
Television,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hoover,
Monks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Electric Prunes,
Darondo,
UT,
Pagans,
Amon Düül,
The Electric Prunes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
John Lydon,
Brothers Johnson,
Rakim,
The Beau Brummels,
Duran Duran,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DJ Sneak,
Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Young Marble Giants,
Boredoms,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slits,
Supertramp,
Suburban Knight,
Frankie Knuckles,
Michelle Simonal,
Altered Images,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visage,
Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Scratch Acid,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Unwound,
Moby Grape,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantytec,
The Walker Brothers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Make Up,
Hardrive,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.