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 Palau and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Stereo Dub to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
DNA,
Cybotron,
Sound Behaviour,
the Germs,
X-101,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Dead C,
The Fall,
A Certain Ratio,
Henry Cow,
Jawbox,
Underground Resistance,
Thompson Twins,
The Kinks,
Nils Olav,
Procol Harum,
The Tremeloes,
The Barracudas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eli Mardock,
Tommy Roe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pierre Henry,
Roxette,
Cameo,
Wire,
John Cale,
Eden Ahbez,
MDC,
Brick,
Surgeon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Suburban Knight,
Arthur Verocai,
Erasure,
Yazoo,
Sister Nancy,
Slave,
the Sonics,
The Real Kids,
Severed Heads,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalann,
Ponytail,
The Skatalites,
Vainqueur,
Skriet,
The Velvet Underground,
Godley & Creme,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Starr,
the Slits,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marshall Jefferson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.