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 Saudi Arabia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 David Axelrod to the rap 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Joensuu 1685,
Franke,
EPMD,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Bobby Sherman,
Blancmange,
Crime,
The Leaves,
The Victims,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pharoah Sanders,
a-ha,
Make Up,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stiv Bators,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
Warren Ellis,
Brothers Johnson,
Donny Hathaway,
The Velvet Underground,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker,
The Evens,
Patti Smith,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Liliput,
Tres Demented,
New Age Steppers,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Dolphy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Seeds,
Alison Limerick,
The Residents,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doors,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Roxette,
Todd Terry,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Slave,
Bronski Beat,
CMW,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marmalade,
Glambeats Corp.,
Thompson Twins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultra Naté,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.