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 El Salvador and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mo-Dettes to the techno 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Janne Schatter,
Little Man,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Happenings,
Altered Images,
Danielle Patucci,
Khruangbin,
Tom Boy,
H. Thieme,
Don Cherry,
The Move,
Hot Snakes,
Pole,
Tim Buckley,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerri Chandler,
Pere Ubu,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Litter,
The Skatalites,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fall,
The Monochrome Set,
F. McDonald,
Marcia Griffiths,
Maurizio,
Outsiders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun City Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Barclay James Harvest,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick May,
The Searchers,
The Evens,
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
The Star Department,
Sister Nancy,
Los Fastidios,
Girls At Our Best!,
OOIOO,
U.S. Maple,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lindisfarne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cybotron,
Porter Ricks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dawn Penn,
Arab on Radar,
Peter & Gordon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.