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 Uganda and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ultra Naté to the techno 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Offenders,
The Trojans,
Gang Starr,
Derrick Morgan,
Altered Images,
X-102,
Radiohead,
Darondo,
Lyres,
Suicide,
Delon & Dalcan,
La Düsseldorf,
DJ Style,
Jeff Lynne,
EPMD,
The Divine Comedy,
Reuben Wilson,
Ronnie Foster,
Lungfish,
Parry Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
The Pop Group,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
E-Dancer,
Quadrant,
Crime,
Robert Wyatt,
Judy Mowatt,
Can,
Deepchord,
Skarface,
James White and The Blacks,
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skriet,
Section 25,
Scion,
Talk Talk,
Urselle,
Qualms,
Laurel Aitken,
Leonard Cohen,
Flipper,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry's Kids,
Audionom,
Bauhaus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Newcleus,
Sonic Youth,
Joey Negro,
Brick,
Gang of Four,
Intrusion,
Glambeats Corp.,
Icehouse,
Charles Mingus,
John Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.