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 South Sudan and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 David McCallum to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
Pere Ubu,
Robert Görl,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mad Mike,
Harmonia,
Outsiders,
Ornette Coleman,
Camouflage,
Deadbeat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Simply Red,
The Seeds,
The Zeros,
Andrew Hill,
Scott Walker,
The Young Rascals,
Panda Bear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Searchers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rotary Connection,
Interpol,
Make Up,
The Neon Judgement,
Wire,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yaz,
Davy DMX,
KRS-One,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Country Joe & The Fish,
kango's stein massive,
The Music Machine,
Bush Tetras,
Cecil Taylor,
Young Marble Giants,
The Standells,
Barry Ungar,
Rosa Yemen,
Nirvana,
The Velvet Underground,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Prince Buster,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Knickerbockers,
Marine Girls,
Hashim,
Porter Ricks,
Silicon Teens,
Intrusion,
The Five Americans,
Spoonie Gee,
Loose Ends,
Susan Cadogan,
Ice-T,
Roy Ayers,
Todd Terry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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.