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 New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Marmalade to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
Slave,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Roger Hodgson,
In Retrospect,
The Five Americans,
Stiv Bators,
Terrestrial Tones,
Michelle Simonal,
Sight & Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers,
Quadrant,
Monks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
MDC,
Marine Girls,
Kas Product,
Stockholm Monsters,
Warsaw,
Danielle Patucci,
Jacob Miller,
Sugar Minott,
The Smiths,
Thee Headcoats,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Livin' Joy,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Funkadelic,
Y Pants,
a-ha,
The Monochrome Set,
Janne Schatter,
Juan Atkins,
Gang of Four,
Monolake,
Hot Snakes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Blake Baxter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Invisible,
Cheater Slicks,
Severed Heads,
Subhumans,
June of 44,
Prince Buster,
DJ Style,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Average White Band,
Adolescents,
Ponytail,
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.