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 Germany and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soul Sonic Force to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Birthday Party,
Half Japanese,
Ornette Coleman,
Marvin Gaye,
Inner City,
John Cale,
Technova,
Brass Construction,
Warsaw,
Whodini,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Zapp,
Suicide,
Surgeon,
Easy Going,
KRS-One,
The Litter,
JFA,
Quando Quango,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lakeside,
The Zeros,
Moss Icon,
the Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott Heron,
UT,
Black Sheep,
the Normal,
One Last Wish,
Delta 5,
The Dirtbombs,
The Angels of Light,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Dolphy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harmonia,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Electric Prunes,
The Blackbyrds,
L. Decosne,
Amazonics,
Rakim,
Lungfish,
Man Parrish,
Reuben Wilson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lalann,
Fatback Band,
The Misunderstood,
Marmalade,
Kurtis Blow,
Simply Red,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.