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 Morocco and from Bologna.
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 Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet 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 DJ Style to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marine Girls,
DJ Style,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Slackers,
Joe Finger,
X-101,
The Trojans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Motorama,
Gang of Four,
Flash Fearless,
Bronski Beat,
Newcleus,
Kayak,
Derrick Morgan,
the Normal,
The Buckinghams,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delta 5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cybotron,
The Residents,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Juan Atkins,
Amon Düül,
D'Angelo,
Slick Rick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dead C,
The Vogues,
FM Einheit,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hoover,
the Bar-Kays,
Gichy Dan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Knickerbockers,
The Kinks,
Eli Mardock,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick May,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lower 48,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Names,
Ludus,
The Barracudas,
Symarip,
Scott Walker,
Nils Olav,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.