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 Chile and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Isaac Hayes to the grunge 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
Youth Brigade,
Excepter,
Brick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Zero Boys,
The Trojans,
The Monochrome Set,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nas,
Avey Tare,
Easy Going,
Yellowson,
Panda Bear,
Icehouse,
DNA,
The Golliwogs,
the Association,
The Cure,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
Deepchord,
Stereo Dub,
Morten Harket,
One Last Wish,
Boredoms,
Derrick May,
Trumans Water,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
The Tremeloes,
The Last Poets,
Donald Byrd,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerri Chandler,
Albert Ayler,
The Neon Judgement,
Godley & Creme,
Roxette,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alison Limerick,
Pantaleimon,
AZ,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blues Magoos,
Niagra,
Barrington Levy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Holt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boz Scaggs,
LL Cool J,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.