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 France and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Deadbeat,
Kaleidoscope,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Amazonics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Index,
In Retrospect,
Skarface,
Skriet,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang of Four,
Stereo Dub,
Section 25,
Massinfluence,
Cecil Taylor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mark Hollis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Depeche Mode,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Sneak,
Graham Central Station,
Schoolly D,
Jacob Miller,
Rotary Connection,
The Gap Band,
Simply Red,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brass Construction,
Zapp,
Lungfish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scratch Acid,
Ohio Players,
Tomorrow,
The Offenders,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Basic Channel,
The Fire Engines,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Lightning Bolt,
Donny Hathaway,
A Certain Ratio,
L. Decosne,
Brick,
Average White Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Tommy Roe,
The Mummies,
The Standells,
The Trojans,
The Doors,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Names,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.