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 Kyrgyzstan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Donald Fagen 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 Funky Four + One to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Kayak,
Radiohead,
Groovy Waters,
The Remains,
The Kinks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wire,
Albert Ayler,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
Tom Boy,
Lalann,
Sonic Youth,
Rufus Thomas,
the Association,
Juan Atkins,
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
The Smiths,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ossler,
Marc Almond,
MDC,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fugs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Womack,
New Age Steppers,
Half Japanese,
Idris Muhammad,
Kenny Larkin,
Jawbox,
Procol Harum,
Moss Icon,
Anthony Braxton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxy Music,
The Last Poets,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kaleidoscope,
Piero Umiliani,
The Beau Brummels,
Smog,
Yaz,
Cybotron,
Ronan,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Starr,
Throbbing Gristle,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ornette Coleman,
John Coltrane,
Malaria!,
Susan Cadogan,
Joe Smooth,
Spandau Ballet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.