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 Burundi and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare 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 Tres Demented to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jandek,
The Happenings,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brothers Johnson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Toni Rubio,
The Flesh Eaters,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Agent Orange,
Lungfish,
48th St. Collective,
Minnie Riperton,
Roxette,
Jacques Brel,
Theoretical Girls,
The Raincoats,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alphaville,
Scientists,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aaron Thompson,
June Days,
Joey Negro,
Ronnie Foster,
Isaac Hayes,
Nico,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nik Kershaw,
OOIOO,
Angry Samoans,
Dave Gahan,
Dennis Brown,
Tubeway Army,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Coltrane,
The Slits,
Mark Hollis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Babytalk,
Pantytec,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alton Ellis,
kango's stein massive,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
Ice-T,
Anthony Braxton,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
New Order,
Rekid,
Scion,
Vainqueur,
Kerri Chandler,
Lyres,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.