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 Andorra and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Ultimate Spinach,
E-Dancer,
Second Layer,
Basic Channel,
Arthur Verocai,
Wire,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
UT,
The Evens,
Pagans,
Byron Stingily,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Silicon Teens,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Boredoms,
The Zeros,
Mantronix,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Accadde A,
MC5,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
Camouflage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Swans,
Pole,
Quadrant,
Aaron Thompson,
Cymande,
A Certain Ratio,
Siglo XX,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wasted Youth,
The Offenders,
Fluxion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Smooth,
Roxy Music,
David Axelrod,
Lungfish,
Echospace,
Bill Wells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra,
Piero Umiliani,
Infiniti,
Sällskapet,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fortunes,
Lou Reed,
Crispy Ambulance,
Technova,
The Skatalites,
Idris Muhammad,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.