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 Serbia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 David Bowie 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 Ten City to the disco 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Khruangbin,
The Skatalites,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gap Band,
The Monochrome Set,
the Swans,
Darondo,
Unrelated Segments,
48th St. Collective,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Bananas,
Carl Craig,
Sound Behaviour,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doors,
Negative Approach,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Flipper,
Frankie Knuckles,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oneida,
Thompson Twins,
MDC,
The Cramps,
Fatback Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Brick,
Babytalk,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Finger,
Sarah Menescal,
Desert Stars,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fluxion,
Main Source,
Los Fastidios,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scientists,
The Leaves,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Flag,
KRS-One,
Parry Music,
X-101,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reagan Youth,
Y Pants,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Byrd,
T. Rex,
the Soft Cell,
The Music Machine,
The Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Slackers,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.