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 Korea South and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron 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 DJ Style to the rock 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Delta 5,
The Offenders,
The Kinks,
Maurizio,
Junior Murvin,
Trumans Water,
Cal Tjader,
Eden Ahbez,
Easy Going,
Soulsonic Force,
Newcleus,
Skaos,
The Pretty Things,
Anakelly,
Ten City,
Blake Baxter,
Wolf Eyes,
Marvin Gaye,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Basic Channel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The J.B.'s,
The Stooges,
Main Source,
Icehouse,
Slick Rick,
Khruangbin,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Isaac Hayes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Faust,
Sonny Sharrock,
Black Moon,
The Grass Roots,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
Tim Buckley,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roxette,
Terrestrial Tones,
Byron Stingily,
Archie Shepp,
The Gun Club,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Swans,
ABBA,
Tears for Fears,
JFA,
The Fuzztones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.