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 San Marino and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Nas to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Ituana,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
The Martian,
Cluster,
R.M.O.,
Mo-Dettes,
Juan Atkins,
Steve Hackett,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker,
Icehouse,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Sneak,
Fluxion,
La Düsseldorf,
T. Rex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
The Star Department,
Aaron Thompson,
Lakeside,
Isaac Hayes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Clear Light,
Nik Kershaw,
Negative Approach,
Dawn Penn,
Tears for Fears,
Y Pants,
Wally Richardson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lucky Dragons,
Agent Orange,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
a-ha,
Sällskapet,
Graham Central Station,
Danielle Patucci,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ornette Coleman,
The Vogues,
Skaos,
EPMD,
The Sound,
David Axelrod,
Animal Collective,
Accadde A,
E-Dancer,
Saccharine Trust,
Chrome,
Bronski Beat,
Scratch Acid,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Eating Sloth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.