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 Senegal and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
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 synthesizer 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 Main Source to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Dark Day,
cv313,
This Heat,
Trumans Water,
Roger Hodgson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
X-101,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cowsills,
Rakim,
Dual Sessions,
Eden Ahbez,
CMW,
Moebius,
Moss Icon,
Aswad,
Average White Band,
The Fall,
The Happenings,
Joy Division,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Cure,
Fatback Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
Adolescents,
Nils Olav,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Index,
Soft Cell,
Ronan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
In Retrospect,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Monks,
Popol Vuh,
The Gladiators,
The Toasters,
Cal Tjader,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yazoo,
Groovy Waters,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
Deepchord,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Starr,
Inner City,
Yusef Lateef,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wasted Youth,
Pussy Galore,
Pagans,
Eddi Front,
Faust,
Accadde A,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.