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 Chile and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Infiniti to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Andrew Hill,
Eric Copeland,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Section 25,
The Remains,
Joe Smooth,
Slave,
U.S. Maple,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
Amon Düül II,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
CMW,
Donald Byrd,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Dolphy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rakim,
Davy DMX,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yaz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Christie,
Ten City,
the Bar-Kays,
Ornette Coleman,
Half Japanese,
Banda Bassotti,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
Bluetip,
Aaron Thompson,
Dark Day,
Theoretical Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Model 500,
Matthew Bourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxy Music,
Black Flag,
The Dirtbombs,
Laurel Aitken,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
New Order,
The Black Dice,
Q65,
Panda Bear,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
The Real Kids,
Au Pairs,
The Mojo Men,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Blues Magoos,
Saccharine Trust,
Idris Muhammad,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.