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 Spain and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the jazz 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blake Baxter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Brand Nubian,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Stiv Bators,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Au Pairs,
Surgeon,
Yusef Lateef,
Spandau Ballet,
The Happenings,
X-102,
Ultra Naté,
Half Japanese,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rites of Spring,
Jandek,
The Star Department,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Deakin,
Thompson Twins,
Fat Boys,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Heaven 17,
Country Joe & The Fish,
La Düsseldorf,
Donald Byrd,
Connie Case,
Tom Boy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Guru Guru,
Davy DMX,
Television Personalities,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Derrick Morgan,
X-101,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minutemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Byrd,
Newcleus,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Fania All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monochrome Set,
Joey Negro,
The Five Americans,
The Leaves,
The Moleskins,
Sam Rivers,
The Litter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
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.