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 Estonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Con Funk Shun to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Selecter,
Rod Modell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cramps,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Gladiators,
Prince Buster,
Shuggie Otis,
Warsaw,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick May,
Kerri Chandler,
Public Enemy,
Ludus,
David Axelrod,
Q65,
David McCallum,
Y Pants,
Lalo Schifrin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Janne Schatter,
Liliput,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Visage,
Funkadelic,
Donny Hathaway,
Zapp,
Au Pairs,
Dave Gahan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Infiniti,
The Gap Band,
Cecil Taylor,
E-Dancer,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Womack,
T.S.O.L.,
Blancmange,
Crime,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Derrick Morgan,
Skaos,
MDC,
The Velvet Underground,
Joey Negro,
The Monochrome Set,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
AZ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
Lower 48,
8 Eyed Spy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Birthday Party,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.