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 Switzerland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the rock 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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
Sarah Menescal,
Main Source,
The Raincoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yazoo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wally Richardson,
Ten City,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Zeros,
Hot Snakes,
Unrelated Segments,
Fatback Band,
Camouflage,
The Misunderstood,
Erykah Badu,
Lyres,
Silicon Teens,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Martian,
Skaos,
Amon Düül,
Marcia Griffiths,
EPMD,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
B.T. Express,
Nirvana,
Eric Dolphy,
The Saints,
The Knickerbockers,
Whodini,
David McCallum,
Intrusion,
Average White Band,
Pole,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Susan Cadogan,
Scan 7,
Swell Maps,
The Cosmic Jokers,
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
LL Cool J,
Bang On A Can,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Juan Atkins,
Bad Manners,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang of Four,
Kurtis Blow,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.