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 Cuba and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 X-101 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Techniques,
The Seeds,
Gang Green,
Loose Ends,
Barrington Levy,
Soul II Soul,
Black Pus,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Womack,
Pantaleimon,
Prince Buster,
New Order,
Altered Images,
Avey Tare,
The New Christs,
Schoolly D,
Marmalade,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Enemy,
Bad Manners,
Tomorrow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fatback Band,
The Leaves,
Johnny Osbourne,
Massinfluence,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Durutti Column,
Hot Snakes,
Pulsallama,
The Walker Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
The Birthday Party,
Tommy Roe,
Davy DMX,
Oneida,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Move,
Youth Brigade,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eve St. Jones,
Au Pairs,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Red Krayola,
Faust,
The Misunderstood,
The Vogues,
MC5,
Magma,
Tom Boy,
The Last Poets,
DJ Style,
Henry Cow,
The Litter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.