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 Rwanda and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sam Rivers to the jazz 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
Index,
Freddie Wadling,
Slave,
Skaos,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Count Five,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Birthday Party,
The Leaves,
Johnny Clarke,
Ultravox,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Clear Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jacob Miller,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Donald Byrd,
Ronan,
Parry Music,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Ice-T,
Bauhaus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minor Threat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ornette Coleman,
In Retrospect,
Nico,
Lakeside,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Toasters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fela Kuti,
Man Parrish,
Derrick Morgan,
Little Man,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Gap Band,
Tim Buckley,
The Shadows of Knight,
Byron Stingily,
Sun Ra,
Quadrant,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Matthew Halsall,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
Moby Grape,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.