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 Romania and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Skarface to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Searchers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Sheep,
Technova,
Godley & Creme,
Black Flag,
Scientists,
Pere Ubu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Drexciya,
T.S.O.L.,
Skarface,
Colin Newman,
Davy DMX,
Lee Hazlewood,
Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Hood,
Eric Copeland,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alice Coltrane,
F. McDonald,
Yazoo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Danielle Patucci,
The Buckinghams,
Arthur Verocai,
Neu!,
Matthew Halsall,
Isaac Hayes,
Cybotron,
Model 500,
Desert Stars,
Yellowson,
The Five Americans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Juan Atkins,
John Lydon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
X-Ray Spex,
Wire,
Ultra Naté,
Mo-Dettes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tommy Roe,
Heaven 17,
Oneida,
Letta Mbulu,
Clear Light,
Motorama,
Crooked Eye,
Groovy Waters,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantytec,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.