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 Syria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pagans to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blancmange,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young,
The Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Surgeon,
FM Einheit,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Dave Clark Five,
Severed Heads,
Yaz,
Mo-Dettes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Sneak,
Magma,
Isaac Hayes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Chrome,
Dark Day,
Intrusion,
Mission of Burma,
Alton Ellis,
Ken Boothe,
Motorama,
Main Source,
Cameo,
The Associates,
The Gories,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Angels of Light,
La Düsseldorf,
The Raincoats,
Franke,
Marcia Griffiths,
David Axelrod,
Thee Headcoats,
Scientists,
Roy Ayers,
Arab on Radar,
Lower 48,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ludus,
Amazonics,
The Real Kids,
Dual Sessions,
Kerri Chandler,
The Kinks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Techniques,
Drexciya,
The Cowsills,
The Beau Brummels,
Boz Scaggs,
MDC,
a-ha,
KRS-One,
Matthew Halsall,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.