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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
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 mellotron 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 Jeff Mills to the dance 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Matthew Bourne,
Erasure,
Mo-Dettes,
R.M.O.,
Pussy Galore,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Schoolly D,
Kenny Larkin,
Pantytec,
Franke,
Magazine,
Eurythmics,
F. McDonald,
Gang of Four,
The Gap Band,
Supertramp,
The Monochrome Set,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang On A Can,
Jandek,
Hot Snakes,
Yusef Lateef,
Procol Harum,
Index,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Soft Cell,
The Knickerbockers,
Toni Rubio,
Flash Fearless,
Dave Gahan,
Country Teasers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hashim,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lungfish,
Derrick May,
Charles Mingus,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Infiniti,
New Age Steppers,
Minnie Riperton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Animal Collective,
World's Most,
Cecil Taylor,
Pulsallama,
Avey Tare,
The Detroit Cobras,
Susan Cadogan,
The Saints,
The Tremeloes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.