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 Cameroon and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Accadde A to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nils Olav,
Shuggie Otis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quando Quango,
Outsiders,
Brothers Johnson,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ponytail,
Rufus Thomas,
Lyres,
the Association,
Davy DMX,
Nation of Ulysses,
kango's stein massive,
Max Romeo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Germs,
Public Enemy,
Neu!,
Angry Samoans,
Duran Duran,
Reuben Wilson,
Slave,
Agitation Free,
Bootsy Collins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Copeland,
Deakin,
B.T. Express,
The Leaves,
Camouflage,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Evens,
Danielle Patucci,
Barrington Levy,
Public Image Ltd.,
L. Decosne,
F. McDonald,
Negative Approach,
Surgeon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun Ra,
Steve Hackett,
Lungfish,
Josef K,
Marcia Griffiths,
Prince Buster,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Offenders,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Byrd,
A Certain Ratio,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.