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 Cairo.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Matthew Halsall to the disco 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lucky Dragons,
The Martian,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New York Dolls,
Wire,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tres Demented,
JFA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hoover,
E-Dancer,
Pagans,
Average White Band,
Monks,
Jacob Miller,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Spoonie Gee,
Animal Collective,
the Swans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Pretty Things,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dawn Penn,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Loose Ends,
Laurel Aitken,
Eric Copeland,
H. Thieme,
Chris & Cosey,
Cheater Slicks,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
Roger Hodgson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Television Personalities,
Smog,
Royal Trux,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jawbox,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sparks,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker,
The United States of America,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
Rufus Thomas,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barrington Levy,
EPMD,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.