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 Taiwan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Shadows of Knight to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Nation of Ulysses,
Todd Terry,
Black Sheep,
Minor Threat,
Ornette Coleman,
Whodini,
Q and Not U,
John Cale,
Ultra Naté,
Flash Fearless,
Peter and Kerry,
The Skatalites,
Index,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Steve Hackett,
Brand Nubian,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gories,
Ice-T,
This Heat,
Jimmy McGriff,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
UT,
Fad Gadget,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dave Gahan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Quadrant,
Cecil Taylor,
Japan,
Angry Samoans,
Blake Baxter,
Vladislav Delay,
Spoonie Gee,
Delta 5,
Brothers Johnson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Main Source,
Section 25,
Monolake,
Television,
Amazonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Selecter,
a-ha,
Arthur Verocai,
Fluxion,
The Blues Magoos,
Pantytec,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
FM Einheit,
The Residents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Walker Brothers,
Parry Music,
The Cure,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.