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 Cambodia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slick Rick to the rap 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Bobby Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Banda Bassotti,
Kas Product,
The Knickerbockers,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Saints,
Danielle Patucci,
Mad Mike,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soul II Soul,
PIL,
the Bar-Kays,
Skaos,
Anakelly,
Hoover,
Organ,
The Modern Lovers,
Angry Samoans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
Lyres,
Moby Grape,
Stereo Dub,
Mandrill,
Brothers Johnson,
AZ,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Albert Ayler,
Judy Mowatt,
Model 500,
The Human League,
Crispy Ambulance,
D'Angelo,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
T.S.O.L.,
Soft Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sällskapet,
Babytalk,
Kerri Chandler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sister Nancy,
Sun Ra,
Yazoo,
Duran Duran,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cameo,
DJ Sneak,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Monolake,
Mr. Review,
Zapp,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.