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 Spain and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Lyon and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 The Litter to the crunk 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Royal Trux,
Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Mark Hollis,
DJ Sneak,
Idris Muhammad,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultimate Spinach,
T.S.O.L.,
Boz Scaggs,
Lakeside,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lyres,
Khruangbin,
the Sonics,
Skarface,
Talk Talk,
Rekid,
Alton Ellis,
John Holt,
Zero Boys,
New York Dolls,
Brand Nubian,
Ponytail,
Warsaw,
PIL,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Negative Approach,
The Barracudas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Five Americans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Raincoats,
Man Parrish,
Bad Manners,
Susan Cadogan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Names,
Soft Machine,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lightning Bolt,
10cc,
Darondo,
Yusef Lateef,
Yazoo,
Kenny Larkin,
Moss Icon,
Tom Boy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hashim,
Franke,
Toni Rubio,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.