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 Turkey 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Mantronix to the rap 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cybotron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Fire Engines,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Trojans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Green,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Christie,
A Certain Ratio,
Terry Callier,
Scrapy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joy Division,
Stockholm Monsters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Curtis Mayfield,
Toni Rubio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Heaven 17,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Schoolly D,
Agent Orange,
Swans,
Wolf Eyes,
Slick Rick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aswad,
Black Bananas,
Pantaleimon,
Shoche,
The Buckinghams,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Q and Not U,
Yusef Lateef,
Wally Richardson,
Public Enemy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
E-Dancer,
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
DJ Style,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tim Buckley,
The Gladiators,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gang of Four,
Black Moon,
Nils Olav,
Donny Hathaway,
Yazoo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grey Daturas,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.