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 Maldives and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Move to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Warren Ellis,
Infiniti,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brothers Johnson,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter and Kerry,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
The Standells,
Black Sheep,
Essential Logic,
Ponytail,
DJ Sneak,
Johnny Clarke,
Rakim,
Michelle Simonal,
Pagans,
Zero Boys,
Parry Music,
Delta 5,
Nirvana,
Camouflage,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Black Dice,
Barrington Levy,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker,
Animal Collective,
Nik Kershaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ice-T,
The Dave Clark Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soul II Soul,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skriet,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs,
Blossom Toes,
Siglo XX,
Cecil Taylor,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tommy Roe,
X-102,
Reagan Youth,
Television Personalities,
Funky Four + One,
The Neon Judgement,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Section 25,
Janne Schatter,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brand Nubian,
8 Eyed Spy,
PIL,
Subhumans,
The Blackbyrds,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.