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 Kenya and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Grandmaster Flash to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Idris Muhammad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Con Funk Shun,
Ludus,
Minor Threat,
Lou Christie,
Popol Vuh,
Shuggie Otis,
the Swans,
Pole,
Derrick May,
Main Source,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Oneida,
Grandmaster Flash,
Iggy Pop,
The Kinks,
Lungfish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
X-102,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Bourne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Andrew Hill,
The Toasters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Television,
One Last Wish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grauzone,
The Fall,
The Searchers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Public Enemy,
Sparks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bob Dylan,
Bush Tetras,
Eric Copeland,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ten City,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
Steve Hackett,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Offenders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
Jeff Lynne,
X-101,
Flash Fearless,
Scientists,
Absolute Body Control,
Wire,
Mandrill,
Pulsallama,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.