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 Greece and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Curtis Mayfield to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Raincoats,
The Mojo Men,
Urselle,
Godley & Creme,
Sam Rivers,
DJ Style,
the Soft Cell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fugs,
Agitation Free,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Leaves,
Magma,
Thee Headcoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Echospace,
a-ha,
Shoche,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
Amon Düül,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
Crime,
Monolake,
Hardrive,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brass Construction,
The Golliwogs,
Ornette Coleman,
The J.B.'s,
Jacob Miller,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
The Offenders,
Model 500,
New Order,
FM Einheit,
The Selecter,
Sex Pistols,
Marmalade,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deepchord,
Zero Boys,
The Mummies,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rufus Thomas,
Newcleus,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
Kerri Chandler,
Letta Mbulu,
MC5,
EPMD,
Rakim,
The Monks,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.