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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Public Image Ltd. to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Wolf Eyes,
Isaac Hayes,
Roger Hodgson,
Magma,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kayak,
Leonard Cohen,
Janne Schatter,
Pagans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eric Dolphy,
Q and Not U,
The Tremeloes,
The Skatalites,
Dead Boys,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
R.M.O.,
The Litter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Moss Icon,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Rekid,
Jawbox,
The Knickerbockers,
Gong,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
Darondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gun Club,
Bad Manners,
Agitation Free,
Nirvana,
Dennis Brown,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fluxion,
The Remains,
Sugar Minott,
Popol Vuh,
Flamin' Groovies,
X-Ray Spex,
Lou Christie,
Sam Rivers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Young Rascals,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Pus,
Depeche Mode,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Talk Talk,
Camberwell Now,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
The Invisible,
Mad Mike,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.