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 Oman and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang Starr to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Jeff Lynne,
Boredoms,
Shoche,
Black Flag,
The Divine Comedy,
Amon Düül II,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pierre Henry,
Guru Guru,
Swell Maps,
Laurel Aitken,
Stereo Dub,
Quando Quango,
John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Knickerbockers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Toasters,
Mad Mike,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DNA,
Brothers Johnson,
Ken Boothe,
Soft Cell,
48th St. Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gichy Dan,
Massinfluence,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Skatalites,
Absolute Body Control,
The Neon Judgement,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
World's Most,
The Gun Club,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Cramps,
Stetsasonic,
Rakim,
Gastr Del Sol,
Judy Mowatt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roxy Music,
Toni Rubio,
Slave,
Procol Harum,
Dual Sessions,
R.M.O.,
Tom Boy,
Skarface,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yazoo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Al Stewart,
Erykah Badu,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.