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 Uganda and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Robert Palmer 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 The Doors to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Drive Like Jehu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mandrill,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chris Corsano,
Blake Baxter,
The Cramps,
Liliput,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camberwell Now,
Thee Headcoats,
Darondo,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unrelated Segments,
Soft Machine,
The Knickerbockers,
T. Rex,
The Martian,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jimmy McGriff,
Prince Buster,
kango's stein massive,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
JFA,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Minnie Riperton,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funky Four + One,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Popol Vuh,
Graham Central Station,
China Crisis,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smiths,
The Skatalites,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Duran Duran,
Gabor Szabo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Malaria!,
Pulsallama,
Groovy Waters,
Dawn Penn,
AZ,
The Moleskins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Spoonie Gee,
Bush Tetras,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.