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 Venezuela and from Tokyo.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Frankie Knuckles to the jazz 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Suburban Knight,
Isaac Hayes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crash Course in Science,
The Remains,
Spandau Ballet,
Lyres,
The Fire Engines,
Erykah Badu,
Barrington Levy,
CMW,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Boz Scaggs,
R.M.O.,
Faraquet,
Bizarre Inc.,
EPMD,
MC5,
Sarah Menescal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Altered Images,
Eric Dolphy,
Liliput,
The Barracudas,
Qualms,
The Knickerbockers,
Scan 7,
Outsiders,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Youth Brigade,
Ice-T,
Aloha Tigers,
Negative Approach,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fall,
The Black Dice,
Camouflage,
Ultra Naté,
Lindisfarne,
Dawn Penn,
Eric B and Rakim,
E-Dancer,
Schoolly D,
Marmalade,
Agent Orange,
X-101,
Radio Birdman,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Boredoms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Neon Judgement,
The American Breed,
Symarip,
Mark Hollis,
Porter Ricks,
The Smiths,
Derrick May,
Lower 48,
Johnny Osbourne,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.