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 Cape Verde and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yusef Lateef to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Roy Ayers,
The Modern Lovers,
Pantaleimon,
Andrew Hill,
Agent Orange,
The Techniques,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The United States of America,
L. Decosne,
Jesper Dahlback,
F. McDonald,
The Music Machine,
Rekid,
Black Bananas,
The Residents,
Bauhaus,
Matthew Halsall,
Amazonics,
Theoretical Girls,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Sound,
Soft Machine,
The Doobie Brothers,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
Pagans,
Qualms,
Carl Craig,
Ossler,
Ronan,
Kaleidoscope,
Sixth Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Godley & Creme,
Country Teasers,
The American Breed,
Skaos,
Archie Shepp,
K-Klass,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Toasters,
MDC,
Jeff Mills,
Minny Pops,
Aaron Thompson,
Sound Behaviour,
The Names,
D'Angelo,
Jerry's Kids,
The Motions,
Gang Green,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.