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 Benin and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the rap 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lakeside,
E-Dancer,
Robert Görl,
Hasil Adkins,
Dark Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Raincoats,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
New Order,
Lou Christie,
Y Pants,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Main Source,
Hardrive,
The Names,
Au Pairs,
June Days,
Magma,
The Gladiators,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mandrill,
Quando Quango,
Slave,
Gang of Four,
The Dirtbombs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fatback Band,
Tres Demented,
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Technova,
Camberwell Now,
Ituana,
Soft Machine,
Bronski Beat,
The Trojans,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Velvet Underground,
Jawbox,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
B.T. Express,
Interpol,
Gerry Rafferty,
Flipper,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Detroit Cobras,
Letta Mbulu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Throbbing Gristle,
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Excepter,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Sheep,
Organ,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.