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 Chile and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Schoolly D to the dance 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barrington Levy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
CMW,
The Count Five,
This Heat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Juan Atkins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Delta 5,
Bluetip,
Mantronix,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Little Man,
Subhumans,
Parry Music,
T.S.O.L.,
Accadde A,
Essential Logic,
Donald Byrd,
The Black Dice,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Index,
Tubeway Army,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pulsallama,
The Gladiators,
The Electric Prunes,
Buzzcocks,
Malaria!,
Jerry's Kids,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Warsaw,
Faust,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Divine Comedy,
Urselle,
Animal Collective,
Aural Exciters,
Joensuu 1685,
Bad Manners,
FM Einheit,
The Gories,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deepchord,
Fugazi,
Dave Gahan,
Chris Corsano,
Pantytec,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hashim,
La Düsseldorf,
Derrick May,
Idris Muhammad,
Bill Near,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.