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 Cambodia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Todd Terry to the techno 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
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,
Bill Wells,
Japan,
Wolf Eyes,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Desert Stars,
The Red Krayola,
Soul II Soul,
Brass Construction,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pierre Henry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Associates,
Radio Birdman,
The Evens,
48th St. Collective,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Groovy Waters,
Severed Heads,
Mo-Dettes,
Flipper,
DNA,
Essential Logic,
The Five Americans,
Morten Harket,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Style,
Panda Bear,
Wire,
Motorama,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
Accadde A,
Camberwell Now,
EPMD,
R.M.O.,
Model 500,
Second Layer,
David Axelrod,
Boredoms,
John Foxx,
Gerry Rafferty,
F. McDonald,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ten City,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joyce Sims,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rakim,
The Cramps,
Dennis Brown,
The Gun Club,
Gang Starr,
Grauzone,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.