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 Kosovo and from London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Alison Limerick,
Jeff Mills,
Slick Rick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Index,
The Skatalites,
Bronski Beat,
Deadbeat,
Flash Fearless,
Visage,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Yusef Lateef,
Scion,
Interpol,
Unrelated Segments,
MC5,
Davy DMX,
DJ Sneak,
The Zeros,
Newcleus,
Minutemen,
Youth Brigade,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ronnie Foster,
Livin' Joy,
K-Klass,
Wally Richardson,
Hoover,
Lyres,
Mars,
Circle Jerks,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Green,
Siglo XX,
Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Velvet Underground,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
Barbara Tucker,
Radiohead,
UT,
Simply Red,
The Evens,
Byron Stingily,
Nik Kershaw,
Tubeway Army,
Peter & Gordon,
The Smoke,
Kerrie Biddell,
Von Mondo,
Absolute Body Control,
Banda Bassotti,
Funky Four + One,
The Mummies,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Rundgren,
Roxette,
Intrusion,
The Wake,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bill Near,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.