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 the UAE and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 sitar 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the techno 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Procol Harum,
The Modern Lovers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
cv313,
Michelle Simonal,
The Music Machine,
Main Source,
Visage,
UT,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Archie Shepp,
This Heat,
Joe Smooth,
Panda Bear,
FM Einheit,
Joey Negro,
Spoonie Gee,
Oneida,
Groovy Waters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rites of Spring,
Ken Boothe,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sound Behaviour,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amon Düül,
Soft Cell,
World's Most,
Lalann,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crime,
Kas Product,
Anthony Braxton,
Soul II Soul,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Martian,
Bobby Byrd,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Index,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Susan Cadogan,
Charles Mingus,
The Human League,
K-Klass,
Leonard Cohen,
Electric Prunes,
Pole,
Kayak,
Black Sheep,
the Sonics,
Gong,
Pylon,
Niagra,
Lucky Dragons,
Chrome,
CMW,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.