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 Bhutan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Womack to the grunge 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 The Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
David McCallum,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Franke,
It's A Beautiful Day,
James Chance & The Contortions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rosa Yemen,
Popol Vuh,
Nas,
Idris Muhammad,
Joey Negro,
Wings,
The Fugs,
Scientists,
Theoretical Girls,
Cal Tjader,
Roy Ayers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Minnie Riperton,
A Certain Ratio,
Isaac Hayes,
The Searchers,
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Model 500,
Crooked Eye,
The Fuzztones,
Basic Channel,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Boredoms,
Metal Thangz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terry Callier,
Lalo Schifrin,
Henry Cow,
New Age Steppers,
Sällskapet,
Deadbeat,
Minutemen,
Duran Duran,
Fad Gadget,
Fela Kuti,
Tomorrow,
Aswad,
Radiopuhelimet,
Graham Central Station,
Sixth Finger,
Das Ding,
James White and The Blacks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bob Dylan,
Kaleidoscope,
The Trojans,
Quando Quango,
a-ha,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Pop Group,
Massinfluence,
Youth Brigade,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.