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 Korea North and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 The Remains to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neil Young,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Monks,
Desert Stars,
Fatback Band,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
the Soft Cell,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
OOIOO,
Au Pairs,
Hoover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Flag,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Bar-Kays,
Yellowson,
The Smoke,
Patti Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Susan Cadogan,
Joy Division,
Magma,
Soft Machine,
Outsiders,
Black Pus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
John Cale,
The Music Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Schoolly D,
Archie Shepp,
The Raincoats,
U.S. Maple,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Suburban Knight,
Groovy Waters,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
Howard Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
James Chance & The Contortions,
T.S.O.L.,
Swell Maps,
Whodini,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang of Four,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blossom Toes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Brothers Johnson,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.