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 Lithuania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Doobie Brothers to the rap 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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
World's Most,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
Shuggie Otis,
Leonard Cohen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kenny Larkin,
Tres Demented,
Dave Gahan,
Joy Division,
David Axelrod,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
In Retrospect,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
DJ Sneak,
Chrome,
Hardrive,
Warsaw,
Livin' Joy,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ultravox,
Grandmaster Flash,
Andrew Hill,
Suicide,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-102,
Buzzcocks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vainqueur,
Babytalk,
Lucky Dragons,
Smog,
Black Pus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Techniques,
Don Cherry,
Television Personalities,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fire Engines,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Henry Cow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New Order,
the Human League,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Danielle Patucci,
Ossler,
D'Angelo,
The Moleskins,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.