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 Equatorial Guinea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 DJ Style to the rock 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Index,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The New Christs,
Drexciya,
EPMD,
Albert Ayler,
Mad Mike,
The Moleskins,
Silicon Teens,
John Cale,
Minnie Riperton,
Barrington Levy,
Robert Hood,
Visage,
The Associates,
Gil Scott Heron,
Absolute Body Control,
Kayak,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Techniques,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cecil Taylor,
Pylon,
Los Fastidios,
Nico,
Cymande,
Mars,
Amon Düül II,
Chrome,
Slave,
X-Ray Spex,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eve St. Jones,
The Golliwogs,
Jeff Lynne,
Tommy Roe,
Steve Hackett,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skarface,
Monolake,
Carl Craig,
Livin' Joy,
Hashim,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fortunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slackers,
Ludus,
Aural Exciters,
Ronnie Foster,
DJ Style,
Nas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Animal Collective,
Joe Finger,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eddi Front,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.