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 Mauritania and from Salvador.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ 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 Kas Product to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
Jacques Brel,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Max Romeo,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Halsall,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Leaves,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Reuben Wilson,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Radiohead,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rekid,
The Gladiators,
Ludus,
The Move,
Hasil Adkins,
Anthony Braxton,
Kayak,
Maurizio,
Bobby Byrd,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tubeway Army,
John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crispian St. Peters,
D'Angelo,
Wally Richardson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Yazoo,
The Smoke,
Frankie Knuckles,
Traffic Nightmare,
Inner City,
Ornette Coleman,
Dead Boys,
Masters at Work,
Japan,
David Bowie,
The Cure,
New York Dolls,
Amon Düül,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Minor Threat,
Hashim,
Barbara Tucker,
Mandrill,
Easy Going,
The J.B.'s,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tres Demented,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Reagan Youth,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.