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 Bulgaria and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the dance 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dark Day,
The Golliwogs,
The Young Rascals,
Laurel Aitken,
Symarip,
Erasure,
the Germs,
Robert Görl,
cv313,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Chrome,
Donny Hathaway,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sight & Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Junior Murvin,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun Ra,
The Fire Engines,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Don Cherry,
Accadde A,
Unrelated Segments,
K-Klass,
The Birthday Party,
Lee Hazlewood,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fortunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
Amon Düül,
Visage,
Khruangbin,
The Gun Club,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
The Fugs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mr. Review,
Scientists,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skarface,
Kas Product,
The Mojo Men,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marc Almond,
Fugazi,
Carl Craig,
Bronski Beat,
Parry Music,
Derrick Morgan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Desert Stars,
Leonard Cohen,
Al Stewart,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.