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 Slovenia 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Techniques to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
AZ,
Second Layer,
Thompson Twins,
John Lydon,
Rufus Thomas,
Sarah Menescal,
Section 25,
Grandmaster Flash,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
Arab on Radar,
Country Teasers,
Negative Approach,
Nas,
Don Cherry,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fela Kuti,
Con Funk Shun,
Aural Exciters,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott Heron,
LL Cool J,
Ice-T,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Symarip,
Organ,
Ludus,
kango's stein massive,
China Crisis,
James White and The Blacks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Public Enemy,
Unwound,
John Holt,
Sight & Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
DNA,
Ralphi Rosario,
Procol Harum,
F. McDonald,
Monks,
Basic Channel,
The Pop Group,
B.T. Express,
Man Parrish,
The Fall,
Bill Wells,
Camberwell Now,
Joe Finger,
Circle Jerks,
Can,
The Doors,
the Soft Cell,
Glenn Branca,
Jeff Mills,
Danielle Patucci,
Suburban Knight,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.