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 Canada and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Moby Grape to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dirtbombs,
Eve St. Jones,
Janne Schatter,
ABC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
PIL,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Average White Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Todd Terry,
Urselle,
Aloha Tigers,
Amazonics,
Arab on Radar,
One Last Wish,
Porter Ricks,
Cameo,
The Kinks,
Suicide,
La Düsseldorf,
Susan Cadogan,
Danielle Patucci,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Seeds,
Glenn Branca,
John Coltrane,
8 Eyed Spy,
Niagra,
David Axelrod,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cure,
The Happenings,
Zapp,
The Golliwogs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Womack,
The Gladiators,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bush Tetras,
Half Japanese,
kango's stein massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Byron Stingily,
Buzzcocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bauhaus,
Pagans,
Joe Finger,
The Tremeloes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Modern Lovers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.