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 Venezuela and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Laurel Aitken to the jazz 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DJ Sneak,
The Fire Engines,
Deadbeat,
Duran Duran,
Derrick Morgan,
Byron Stingily,
CMW,
The Durutti Column,
Wings,
The Evens,
Zero Boys,
Sun Ra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mark Hollis,
Deepchord,
Kerrie Biddell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Monks,
Albert Ayler,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mad Mike,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Spoonie Gee,
Nils Olav,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tres Demented,
Altered Images,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tommy Roe,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pantaleimon,
Nas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Avey Tare,
Crooked Eye,
Freddie Wadling,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brothers Johnson,
the Bar-Kays,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Womack,
MC5,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barbara Tucker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Can,
Faust,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sarah Menescal,
Aswad,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.