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 United Kingdom and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bologna.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Donald Byrd 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Mandrill,
Joe Smooth,
DNA,
Moss Icon,
Interpol,
Pierre Henry,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scan 7,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
UT,
Cheater Slicks,
Motorama,
The Detroit Cobras,
Oneida,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerri Chandler,
Young Marble Giants,
Camberwell Now,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
KRS-One,
The Skatalites,
The Smoke,
Matthew Halsall,
The Remains,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Icehouse,
Stetsasonic,
Mad Mike,
Pole,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
La Düsseldorf,
Traffic Nightmare,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Johnny Osbourne,
Echospace,
ABBA,
Joy Division,
X-101,
Quadrant,
Eric B and Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
Bang On A Can,
Dawn Penn,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q65,
Laurel Aitken,
Warsaw,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül II,
Amazonics,
Urselle,
Cybotron,
Swell Maps,
The United States of America,
The Trojans,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
Supertramp,
Marine Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Evens,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.