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 Greece and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ice-T to the jazz 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Don Cherry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Normal,
Wally Richardson,
Sight & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Clarke,
Bad Manners,
Al Stewart,
Brass Construction,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joyce Sims,
Crash Course in Science,
The Music Machine,
Arthur Verocai,
The Sonics,
Gang Starr,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange,
OOIOO,
The Fugs,
Cluster,
Tres Demented,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blancmange,
Kurtis Blow,
Oneida,
The Kinks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eddi Front,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Monks,
Angry Samoans,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronnie Foster,
Minutemen,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cramps,
Dennis Brown,
the Germs,
The Seeds,
E-Dancer,
Curtis Mayfield,
Danielle Patucci,
Wings,
Letta Mbulu,
Silicon Teens,
Saccharine Trust,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Names,
David McCallum,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.