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 Albania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shuggie Otis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Popol Vuh,
Q65,
Rakim,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
The Trojans,
Neil Young,
Faraquet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gabor Szabo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mr. Review,
The Motions,
Crash Course in Science,
Visage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cameo,
Kurtis Blow,
Yusef Lateef,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Country Teasers,
Jeff Lynne,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Görl,
Panda Bear,
Scratch Acid,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Porter Ricks,
Sandy B,
H. Thieme,
Cal Tjader,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
Stetsasonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Drexciya,
Toni Rubio,
Johnny Clarke,
The Searchers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scion,
Bob Dylan,
Donald Byrd,
Agent Orange,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Chris & Cosey,
The Evens,
John Lydon,
Lalann,
Hoover,
Marvin Gaye,
the Normal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eddi Front,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.