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 Iceland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Public Enemy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Grey Daturas,
Mark Hollis,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sandy B,
Moby Grape,
the Association,
Audionom,
Gang Starr,
JFA,
The Star Department,
Minny Pops,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Sonic Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shuggie Otis,
Au Pairs,
Marine Girls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris Corsano,
Black Sheep,
Drexciya,
Tommy Roe,
The Associates,
Gichy Dan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Japan,
Funky Four + One,
Dawn Penn,
MDC,
Circle Jerks,
Essential Logic,
Lungfish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DJ Style,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Shoche,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sun City Girls,
Flash Fearless,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Offenders,
Eli Mardock,
the Swans,
Reagan Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Pantaleimon,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
Visage,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bluetip,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.