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 Chile and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kas Product,
The Kinks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Swell Maps,
Letta Mbulu,
The Grass Roots,
Ken Boothe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Johnny Clarke,
The Modern Lovers,
Jacques Brel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Reuben Wilson,
OOIOO,
The Busters,
Duran Duran,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rosa Yemen,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Maleditus Sound,
The United States of America,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rekid,
Sparks,
Scott Walker,
Bobbi Humphrey,
MC5,
Mars,
Aaron Thompson,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ice-T,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gun Club,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marine Girls,
The Sonics,
Mr. Review,
Soft Cell,
Easy Going,
Kenny Larkin,
Stetsasonic,
Lalann,
Sun City Girls,
The Vogues,
Rites of Spring,
Ultravox,
Jandek,
Zapp,
Joyce Sims,
Mantronix,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.