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 Saudi Arabia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Yaz to the punk 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Nils Olav,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camberwell Now,
The Standells,
Rotary Connection,
Don Cherry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Zapp,
The Smoke,
Glambeats Corp.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ornette Coleman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tears for Fears,
Rekid,
Todd Terry,
Desert Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Dead C,
48th St. Collective,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Searchers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra,
Robert Hood,
Anakelly,
the Association,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Technova,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Victims,
Cluster,
Mantronix,
Sugar Minott,
Blancmange,
Peter & Gordon,
Sarah Menescal,
Unrelated Segments,
Symarip,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moleskins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slits,
Dorothy Ashby,
Animal Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
Neil Young,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Last Poets,
Deepchord,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.