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 Brunei and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 AZ to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Jacob Miller,
the Human League,
The Flesh Eaters,
Talk Talk,
The Cure,
Con Funk Shun,
Infiniti,
Flipper,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül II,
Warren Ellis,
Half Japanese,
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
Pussy Galore,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Gang Dance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
Lebanon Hanover,
Moebius,
Fela Kuti,
The Music Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
KRS-One,
Blake Baxter,
Monks,
Terry Callier,
Amazonics,
Clear Light,
Sex Pistols,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Theoretical Girls,
The Blues Magoos,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
10cc,
Sam Rivers,
Joensuu 1685,
Qualms,
Archie Shepp,
Erasure,
Kaleidoscope,
Eric Copeland,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cybotron,
Bob Dylan,
Lightning Bolt,
Dead Boys,
The Seeds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funky Four + One,
The Smiths,
The Fortunes,
Erykah Badu,
The Skatalites,
Connie Case,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.