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 Maldives and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Aaron Thompson to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Albert Ayler,
Eden Ahbez,
Letta Mbulu,
Junior Murvin,
The Saints,
Idris Muhammad,
Tres Demented,
David Axelrod,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Slave,
The J.B.'s,
Hardrive,
The Five Americans,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
The Selecter,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Panda Bear,
Lucky Dragons,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Basic Channel,
Popol Vuh,
Aswad,
Arthur Verocai,
Absolute Body Control,
Barclay James Harvest,
Newcleus,
Lindisfarne,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Saccharine Trust,
Underground Resistance,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yaz,
Adolescents,
Crooked Eye,
Arcadia,
Thompson Twins,
Lower 48,
New Order,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lungfish,
World's Most,
Motorama,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hoover,
Massinfluence,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Max Romeo,
Black Flag,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.