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 Benin and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum 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 T.S.O.L. to the grime 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Reuben Wilson,
Magma,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Robert Hood,
Connie Case,
Organ,
Cheater Slicks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Grass Roots,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Sonics,
Moebius,
Bush Tetras,
Stereo Dub,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
The Sisters of Mercy,
In Retrospect,
Idris Muhammad,
Michelle Simonal,
Moss Icon,
The Smiths,
Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Con Funk Shun,
Y Pants,
Fad Gadget,
Rhythm & Sound,
Schoolly D,
Little Man,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Animal Collective,
Rites of Spring,
Alice Coltrane,
The Pretty Things,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Johnny Clarke,
The Remains,
The Raincoats,
Susan Cadogan,
Lalann,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erasure,
Swans,
Simply Red,
Television Personalities,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kerri Chandler,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.